CVE-2024-36486

HIGH EPSS 19.4%
Published Jun 3, 20251y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20261w ago
7.8 CVSS 3.1
High
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Published Jun 3, 2025 1y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 1w ago

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.

CVSS Details

Base Score
7.8
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
5.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity High
Availability High

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
19.4% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
Public Exploit Known
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 2

CWE-59
CWE-62

Affected Products 1

VendorProductVersionRange
parallelsparallels_desktop20.1.1_\(55740\)any

References 2

  • talosintelligence.com https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126
    ExploitThird Party Advisory
  • talosintelligence.com https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126
    ExploitThird Party Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.