CVE-2023-45249: Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) Insecure Default Password Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
Acronis Cyber Infrastructure (ACI) allows an unauthenticated user to execute commands remotely due to the use of default passwords.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Acronis Cyber Infrastructure allows unauthenticated remote command execution due to insecure default passwords.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of Acronis Cyber Infrastructure using default passwords are affected.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent as the vulnerability is critical and actively exploited.
- Action
- Users should change default passwords and apply any available security updates.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-45249
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2023-45249Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 99% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2023-45249 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
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