Detections
Analytics
CVE-2024-54189
high
Description
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
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124