Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-25852

Medium

Published: 29 April 2026

Published
29 April 2026
Modified
19 May 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3 6.7 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0009 0.6th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-25852 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Acronis DeviceLock DLP (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 6.7 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique DLL (T1574.001); ranked at the 0.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

A08:2025 Software or Data Integrity Failures

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis DeviceLock DLP (Windows) before build 9.0.93212.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1574.001 DLL Stealth
Adversaries may abuse dynamic-link library files (DLLs) in order to achieve persistence, escalate privileges, and evade defenses.
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Why these techniques?

Explicit DLL hijacking (CWE-427) enables hijack execution flow for local privilege escalation.

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

Affected Assets

Acronis
DeviceLock DLP
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References