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CVE-2023-5042: Sensitive information disclosure due to insecure folder permissions.

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.35% (FIRST EPSS).
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office 40713; Acronis Acronis True Image OEM 42575.
  • Severity is disputed: the assigning authority (CNA) scores it 5.5, NVD 7.5.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office 40713; Acronis Acronis True Image OEM 42575 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Sensitive information disclosure due to insecure folder permissions. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office (Windows) before build 40713, Acronis True Image OEM (Windows) before build 42575.

HighCVSS 7.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 20, 2023
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.3% · 28th percentile

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Action score

30

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.3%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
7.5
CNA · Acronis
5.5
2.0 point gap

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

Is your version affected?

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VendorProduct
acroniscyber protect home office
microsoftwindows

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • acronis cyber protect home officebefore 40713

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (Acronis). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office

    • unspecified and later · before 40713affected · semver

  • Acronis Acronis True Image OEM

    • unspecified and later · before 42575affected · semver

Same product

acronis: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2023-44208Sensitive information disclosure and manipulation due to missing authorization.
    36Monitor
  • CVE-2023-48677Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability.
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2022-46869Local privilege escalation during installation due to improper soft link handling.
    31Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-44747Nov 7, 2022 · Local privilege escalation due to improper soft link handling.
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-4418May 18, 2023 · Local privilege escalation due to unrestricted loading of unsigned libraries.
    31Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2022-46868Aug 31, 2023 · Local privilege escalation during recovery due to improper soft link handling.
    31Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
Acronis Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office40713Vendor (CNA)
Acronis Acronis True Image OEM42575Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • No account or password is required.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
high · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none
Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality impact
High
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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