CVE-2024-52561: 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 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 Parallels Desktop: version 20.1.1_(55740) only

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