CVE-2024-36486: Parallels Desktop

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Parallels Desktop: version 20.1.1_(55740) only

Published 2025-06-03. Last modified 2026-06-17.