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ghsa-f2vx-65mp-r4fp

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 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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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

CWE-62 - UNIX Hard Link

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.

References

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URL

Tags

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124

Impacted products

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

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