CVE-2024-6240
Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.7 High
- Published
- Jun 21, 2024
- Updated
- Aug 1, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 21, 2024
Description
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.7 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N | INCIBE |
Weaknesses
- CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
Parallels DesktopParallels |
|
References
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