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CVE-2024-52561

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2025-06-03 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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 Platforms

Parallels Parallels Desktop

Weakness Type

CWE-708, CWE-59

References