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Improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels...

High severity Unreviewed Published Jun 21, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jun 21, 2024

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 21, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 21, 2024
Last updated Jun 21, 2024

Severity

High
7.7
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-6240

GHSA ID

GHSA-x5f6-gmwc-2843

Source code

No known source code

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