🛡️ CVE-2026-44609

🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-427 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Local privilege escalation due to EXE hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis DeviceLock DLP (Windows) before build 9.0.15051.93227.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level 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 high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-44609 is classified as CWE-427: Uncontrolled Search Path Element. A writable directory appears in a search path, so a planted file can be loaded in place of the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2026-44609 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 3 June 2026 and last revised on 22 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

security-advisory.acronis.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-427
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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