CVE-2024-36486 – Parallels Desktop for Mac Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2024-36486 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution
of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may
impact the vulnerability’s severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified
    by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Jun. 03, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126
  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Jun. 03, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description 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.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-62
    Added Reference https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126
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