Release notes

Build38530February 16, 2021

Acronis True Image 2020 Update 4 for Windows

What's new

  • Added support for the Windows 10 October 2020 Update.
  • Bug fixes and other improvements.

Fixed issues

  • SEC-2196 Local privilege escalation was possible due to insecure folder permissions. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-10140, CVSS score 8.7 (high). We want to thank HackerOne researchers @adr, @mmg, @vanitas for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-2181 Local privilege escalation was possible due to a DLL injection vulnerability. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-10139, CVSS score 8.1 (high). We want to thank HackerOne researchers @adr, @mmg, @vanitas, @xnand for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-2721 Local privilege escalation was possible due to DLL hijacking vulnerability in multiple components. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-35145, CVSS score 6.9 (medium severity). We would like to thank HackerOne researchers @vanitas, @z3ron3, @binary_01 for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-1766 - Local privilege escalation was possible due to improper soft link handling. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-9451, CVSS score 5.9 (medium). We want to thank HackerOne researcher @mjoensen for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-1768 Antiransomware microservice did not authenticate inter-service communication. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-9450, CVSS score 4.9 (medium severity). We would like to thank HackerOne researcher @mjoensen for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-1767 - Possible denial of service due to insecure folder permissions. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-9452, CVSS score 4.2 (medium). We want to thank HackerOne researcher @mjoensen for reporting this to us.

Known issues and limitations of this version

  • TI-169821 Backup conversion to VHD format is not present for the new backup format, *.tibx.
  • TI-171553 Moving backups by using the Acronis True Image console is not available for the new backup format, *.tibx.
  • TI-169548 Renaming local backups is not supported for the new backup format, *.tibx.
  • TI-172340 The backup mounting option is not supported for the new backup format, *.tibx.
  • TI-172086 After the second launch of a local disk backup with the "Version chain" scheme, Acronis True Image creates a differential backup instead of a full backup.

System requirements

Hardware requirements:

  • Intel CORE 2 Duo (2 GHz) or equivalent processor that supports SSE instructions

Operating systems:

  • Windows 10 (most editions, including October 2020 Update, except for Windows IoT editions) File systems are supported only for backup and recovery of disks or partitions.
  • Windows 8.1 (except for Windows Embedded editions)
  • Windows 8 (except for Windows Embedded editions)
  • Windows 7 SP1 (all editions)
  • Windows Home Server 2011

Beta builds are not supported.

Windows Embedded, IoT editions, Windows 10 LTSB, and Windows 10 LTSC are not supported.

It is possible for the software to work on other Windows operating systems, but it is not guaranteed.

File systems:

  • NTFS
  • Ext2/Ext3/Ext4
  • ReiserFS(3) File systems are supported only for backup and recovery of disks or partitions.
  • Linux SWAP File systems are supported only for backup and recovery of disks or partitions.
  • HFS+**/HFSX Disk recovery, partition recovery, and cloning operations are supported without resizing.
  • FAT16/32/exFAT Disk recovery, partition recovery, and cloning operations are supported without resizing.

If a file system is not supported or is corrupted, Acronis True Image can copy data by using a sector-by-sector approach.

Storage media:

  • Hard disk drives (HDD)
  • Solid-state drives (SSD)
  • Networked storage devices
  • FTP servers
  • The FTP server must allow file transfers in the passive mode. Acronis True Image 2020 splits a backup into files with a size of 2 GB when backing up directly to an FTP server.
  • CD-R/RW, DVD-R/RW, DVD+R (including double-layer DVD+R), DVD+RW, DVD-RAM, BD-R, BD-RE
  • USB 1.1 / 2.0 / 3.0, USB-C, eSATA, FireWire (IEEE-1394), SCSI, and PC card storage devices

Limitations on operations with dynamic disks:

  • Creation of Acronis Secure Zone on dynamic disks is not supported.
  • Recovery of a dynamic volume as a dynamic volume with manual resizing is not supported.
  • Try&DecideĀ® cannot be used for protecting dynamic disks.
  • The "Clone disk" operation is not supported for dynamic disks.
Build26010February 16, 2021

Acronis True Image 2020 Update 4 for Mac

What's new

  • Bug fixes and other improvements.

Fixed issues

  • SEC-2071 Local privilege escalation was possible due to insecure folder permissions. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-25593, CVSS score 6.4 (medium). We want to thank HackerOne researcher @theevilbit for reporting this to us.
  • SEC-2309 Local privilege escalation was possible due to insecure service configuration. The issue was assigned CVE-2020-25736, CVSS score 6.0 (medium). We want to thank HackerOne researcher @theevilbit for reporting this to us.

Known issues and limitations of this version

  • TI-172482 An incorrect status of OK is displayed for Paused backups in the Family Dashboard.
  • TI-169678 Replication is not supported in the Touch bar.
  • TI-167900 "Replicating... less than 1 minute" is displayed in the Replica tab, but replication lasts longer than one minute.
  • TI-147647 Cloning fails with the error "Cannot create APFS container" if a disk with two or more APFS containers is being cloned.
  • TI-50437 Excluding by mask does not exclude files with UTF symbols in the file name.

System requirements

Operating systems:

  • macOS Catalina 10.15
  • macOS Mojave 10.14
  • macOS High Sierra 10.13
  • macOS Sierra 10.12
  • OS X El Capitan 10.11

File systems:

  • APFS
  • HFS+
  • Core Storage
  • FAT32
  • NTFS (including Boot Camp)

Unsupported configurations:

  • RAIDs of any kind
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