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ghsa-w3cx-68mp-rwcw

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-06-03 12:30

Modified

2025-06-03 12:30

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

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.

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-06-03 09:43

Modified

2025-06-03 13:22

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-62 - UNIX Hard Link

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.

References

URL

Tags

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Parallels	Parallels Desktop for Mac	Version: version 20.1.1 (55740)

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