CVE-2024-54189

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740)

Description A privilege escalation issue exists in the Snapshot functionality. When a snapshot of a virtual machine is taken, a root service writes to a file owned by a normal user. An attacker can use a hard link to write to an arbitrary file, which may lead to the elevation of privileges.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.