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CVE-2024-36486
published 2025-06-03

CVE-2024-36486: A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the virtual machine archive restoration functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (55740). When…

PriorityP346high7.8CVSS 3.1
AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH
EPSS
0.28%
19.4th percentile
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
parallelsparallels_desktop
parallelsparallels_desktop_for_mac
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