CVE-2026-87886 is a high-severity local privilege-escalation vulnerability in Acronis Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM and Acronis Backup extension for Plesk on Linux. A low-privileged local attacker can elevate permissions on a vulnerable server without user interaction. The underlying technical flaw has not been publicly disclosed. Affected versions are cPanel & WHM plugin builds earlier than 1.9.3.1021 and Plesk extension builds earlier than 1.8.11.638.
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What an attacker gets, and what they’ve been doing with it.
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No public exploit code observed for this vulnerability.
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Every observed campaign linking this CVE to a named adversary.
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Cross-references every affected SKU, including bundled OEM variants.
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