Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop

Posted date 21/06/2024
Importance
4 - High
Affected Resources
  • Parallels Desktop, versions prior to 19.3.0.
Description

INCIBE has coordinated the publication of a high severity vulnerability affecting Parallels, versions prior to 19.3.0, a solution to run Windows applications, both in Chrome and Mac, in a completely virtual way, which has been discovered by Carlos Polop Martín.

This vulnerability has been assigned the following code, CVSS v3.1 base score, CVSS vector and CWE vulnerability type:

  • CVE-2024-6240: 7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | CWE-269.
Solution

The vulnerability has been fixed by the manufacturer Parallels in version 19.3.0.

Detail

CVE-2024-6240: 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.

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