CVE-2024-54189 Information

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.

Reference

https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124 https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124 https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2124