CVE-2024-36486 Information

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.

Reference

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126 https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2126