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CVE-2024-54189
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-06-03T10:15:22.040 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:09:54.390

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 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.

Affected products

parallels — parallels_desktop

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References

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