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CVE-2024-36486

Status: AnalyzedHigh (7.8)—

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.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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🎯 ATT&CK techniques

How this vulnerability is exploited and what the attacker gains, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

Vulnerabilidad de escalada de privilegios local (AV:L, PR:L) en herramienta que opera con privilegios root; permite escritura arbitraria de archivos via symlink/hardlink, escalando a root.

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🛡️ ATT&CK mitigations that cover these techniques

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Affected technologies (1)

Parallels — Parallels Desktop

CWEs

References

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