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CVE-2024-52561
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-06-03T10:15:21.857 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:07:27.660

Summary

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 deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change the ownership of files owned by root to a lower-privilege user, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Affected products

parallels — parallels_desktop

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References

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