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CVE-2024-54189

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 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 Platforms

Parallels Parallels Desktop

Weakness Type

CWE-62, CWE-59

References