fkie_cve-2024-36486
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-06-03 10:15
Modified
2025-07-02 15:06
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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
talos-cna@cisco.comhttps://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126Exploit, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126Exploit, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
parallels parallels_desktop 20.1.1_\(55740\)


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  "id": "CVE-2024-36486",
  "lastModified": "2025-07-02T15:06:56.410",
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