CVE-2022-3405Code execution and sensitive information disclosure due to excessive privileges assigned to Acronis Agent. The following products are…
- 9.3CriticalCVSS base score
- 5.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Code execution and sensitive information disclosure due to excessive privileges assigned to Acronis Agent. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 15 (Windows, Linux) before build 29486, Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5 (Windows, Linux) before build 16545.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules2 modules
- Acronis Cyber Protect/Backup remote code execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/http/acronis_cyber_protect_unauth_rce_cve_2022_3405Rank excellentdisclosed 8 Nov 2022
- Acronis Cyber Protect/Backup machine info disclosure (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/gather/acronis_cyber_protect_machine_info_disclosureRank normal
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By Acronis
- 7 months later
· 7 months later
Published
- 21 months later
· 21 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| AcronisCNA (assigner) | 3.0 | Critical9.3 | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.3% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.3.
Affected products
Acronis · Acronis Cyber Protect 15
- affected unspecified – < 29486
Acronis · Acronis Cyber Backup 12.5
- affected unspecified – < 16545
References
References2
- SEC-4092 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- Authentication Bypass with subsequent Remote Command Execution in Acronis Cyber Protect (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-42782 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-3405)Record last updated .