CVE-2024-54189

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.

Weakness classification

• talos-cna@cisco.com: CWE-62
• nvd@nist.gov: CWE-59

Primary references

• talos-cna@cisco.com — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory
• 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 — Exploit, Third Party Advisory