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CVE-2026-18759

📛 CVE Title

An improper authentication and path traversal vulnerability exists in ASUSTOR Backup Plan and ASUSTOR EZ Sync.

Description

The background service of ABP or AES runs as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM and implements a file-based inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism protected by AES encryption. Because the encryption key file is readable by standard users and protected using DPAPI. Any authenticated local user can recover the key and forge valid IPC requests. Furthermore, the service does not check the identity of the requesting process and validates destination paths using an insufficient substring check. A local attacker can submit crafted encrypted requests containing directory traversal sequences to perform arbitrary file reads and arbitrary file writes as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, leading to full local privilege escalation. Affected products and versions include: ABP (ASUSTOR Backup Plan) 2.0.7.10171 and earlier as well as AES (ASUSTOR EZSync) 1.1.1.3113 and earlier.

Overview

State
PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA)
ASUSTOR1
CVSS severity
HIGH
CVSS score
CVSS 8.5 / 10 8.5 8.5 / 10
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Effective score
8.5 / 10 HIGH source: CNA overview
CWE(s)
CWE-287, CWE-269
Reserved
2026-08-04
Published
2026-08-04 07:25 UTC
Last updated
2026-08-04 13:33 UTC
Source
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/18xxx/CVE-2026-18759.json
Linked Threat
CVE-2026-18759 — An improper authentication and path traversal vulnerability exists in ASUSTOR Backup Plan and ASUSTOR EZ Sync.

Affected products (2)

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
ASUSTOR Inc. ABP ABP 2.0 (affected) Windows, x86, 64 bit
ASUSTOR Inc. AES AES 1.0 (affected) Windows, x86, 64 bit

Vendor references (1)

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-18759.json.

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