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CVE-2024-52561

• 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-708

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 deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change the ownership of files owned by root to a lower-privilege user, potentially leading to privilege escalation.

Affected products

• Parallels Desktop: 20.1.1_(55740)

References

• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2123
• https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2123
• https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2024-2123

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