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CVE-2024-6240: Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 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: none known
• Published: 2024-06-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop Software, which affects versions earlier than 19.3.0. An attacker could add malicious code in a script and populate the BASH_ENV environment variable with the path to the malicious script, executing on application startup. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to escalate privileges on the system.

Affected products

• Parallels Desktop: before 19.3.0 — fixed in 19.3.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Parallels Desktop 19.3.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/improper-privilege-management-vulnerability-parallels-desktop
• https://www.incibe.es/en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/improper-privilege-management-vulnerability-parallels-desktop

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