Vulnerability Details CVE-2024-36486
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 5.9%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
References
Products affected by CVE-2024-36486
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cpe:2.3:a:parallels:parallels_desktop:20.1.1_(55740)