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.

INFO

Published Date :

2025-06-03T09:43:26.596Z

Last Modified :

2025-06-03T13:22:13.518Z

Source :

talos
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2024-36486 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Parallels
  • Parallels Desktop
REFERENCES

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https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126 cve-icon
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