CVE-2024-36486

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.

References

https://blog.talosintelligence.com/catdoc-zero-day-nvidia-high-logic-fontcreator-and-parallel-vulnerabilities/

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

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS