CVE-2023-45249

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI): Insecure Default Password

As of , CVE-2023-45249 in Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 29 July 2024
US federal deadline
19 August 202421 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.53Higher than 98% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.00 on 29 July 2024EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
1 Metasploit module
Fix
Vendor advice: security-advisory.acronis.comLinks below, from CISA's entry.

What CISA says to do

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) allows an unauthenticated user to execute commands remotely due to the use of default passwords.

CISA's description

Remote command execution due to use of default passwords. The following products are affected: Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) before build 5.0.1-61, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) before build 5.1.1-71, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) before build 5.2.1-69, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) before build 5.3.1-53, Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) before build 5.4.4-132.

The CVE record's description, from Acronis

CVE published
24 July 2024
Assigned by
Acronis
CVSS
9.8 Critical (CVSS 3.0, from the CNA)
CWE-1393
Use of Default Password
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
yes
CISA SSVC, technical impact
total

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  3. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Public exploits

Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.

  • Metasploit: Acronis Cyber Infrastructure default password remote code executionexploit module, rank excellent

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