CVE-2024-36486 (GCVE-0-2024-36486)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-06-03 09:43 – Updated: 2025-06-03 13:22
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Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the virtual machine archive restoration functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (55740). When an archived virtual machine is restored, the prl_vmarchiver tool decompresses the file and writes the content back to its original location using root privileges. An attacker can exploit this process by using a hard link to write to an arbitrary file, potentially resulting in privilege escalation.
Severity ?
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Vendor Product Version
Parallels Parallels Desktop for Mac Affected: version 20.1.1 (55740)
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Credits
Discovered by KPC of Cisco Talos.
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