🛡️ CVE-2024-36486
🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-62 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-62
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2025-06-03
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-07-02
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
parallels-desktop

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