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🛡️ CVE-2026-28714 — cyber-protect

🟡 CVSS 4.8 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-522 NVD
4.8
CVSS Score
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Description

Unnecessary transmission of sensitive cryptographic material. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect 17 (Linux, Windows) before build 41186.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached from an adjacent network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Adjacent network — the attacker has to sit on the same local or logical network.
  • Attack complexity: High — the attacker first has to win a race, learn a secret or otherwise prepare the target.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-28714 is classified as CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials. Credentials are stored or transmitted with protection too weak for what they unlock.

Affected software

CVE-2026-28714 is recorded against 1 package.

  • cyber-protect (fixed in 17.0.41186)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2026 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security-advisory.acronis.com

Other advisories for this package

cyber-protect has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-522: Insufficiently Protected Credentials) in other software:

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 4.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-522
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-06
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
cyber-protect — 17.0.41186

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