What is CVE-2024-34016?

CVE-2024-34016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-34016?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent

CVE-2024-34016

Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 38235.

Published 2024-09-16 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (5.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 6th percentile — 5.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-7188 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-34016?: CVE-2024-34016 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-34016?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.