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CVE-2024-36486

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2025-06-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-62

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.

Affected products

• Parallels Desktop: 20.1.1_(55740)

References

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

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