What is CVE-2024-8766?

CVE-2024-8766 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect 16, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-09-16.

How severe is CVE-2024-8766?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect 16

CVE-2024-8766

Local privilege escalation due to DLL hijacking vulnerability. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent (Windows) before build 38235, Acronis Cyber Protect 16 (Windows) before build 39169.

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

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.001 (2.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 3rd percentile — 2.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.001 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Acronis Cyber Protect 16 — versions unspecified
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud Agent — versions unspecified

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-427 — Uncontrolled Search Path Element

References

security-advisory.acronis.com/advisories/SEC-7218 (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-8766?: CVE-2024-8766 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Acronis Cyber Protect 16, classified under Uncontrolled Search Path Element. CVSS score: 6.7/10. Published 2024-09-16.
How severe is CVE-2024-8766?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.7 out of 10.