CVE-2024-54189 (GCVE-0-2024-54189)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-06-03 09:43
Modified
2025-06-03 13:19
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740). When a snapshot of a virtual machine is taken, a root service writes to a file owned by a normal user. By using a hard link, an attacker can write to an arbitrary file, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
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Vendor Product Version
Parallels Parallels Desktop for Mac Version: version 20.1.1 (55740)
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