Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in Parallels Desktop for Mac
CVE-2024-54189

7.8HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Parallels

Status
Parallels Desktop For Mac
Vendor
CVE Published:
3 June 2025

What is CVE-2024-54189?

A privilege escalation vulnerability has been identified in the Snapshot feature of Parallels Desktop for Mac. This issue arises when a virtual machine snapshot is created, leading to a root service that inadvertently writes to a file owned by a standard user. Exploiting this flaw, an attacker can leverage hard links to manipulate and write to arbitrary files, which can result in unauthorized escalation of privileges.

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Affected Version(s)

Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (55740)

References

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.8
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Local
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

Discovered by KPC of Cisco Talos.
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