Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-28711

Medium

Published: 06 March 2026

Published
06 March 2026
Modified
11 March 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0009 0.6th percentile
Risk Priority 35 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2026-28711 is a medium-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (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 Cyber Protect 17 (Windows) before build 41186.

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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T1068 Exploitation for Privilege Escalation Privilege Escalation
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in an attempt to elevate privileges.
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Why these techniques?

CVE describes local privilege escalation via DLL hijacking (CWE-427), directly enabling T1574.002 (DLL Side-Loading) and T1068 (Exploitation for Privilege Escalation).

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

Affected Assets

acronis
cyber protect
≤ 17.0.41186

Mitigating Controls

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

References