CVE-2024-36486

HIGH

7.8

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.8

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorLOCAL

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredLOW

User InteractionNONE

Published6/3/2025

Last Modified7/2/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

parallels:parallels_desktop

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-62CWE-59

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126(talos-cna@cisco.com)

https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126(134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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