Parallels Desktop privilege escalation | CVE-2023-27324
NAME
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Parallels Desktop privilege escalation
Platforms Affected:
Parallels Desktop 18.1
Risk Level:
7.8
Exploitability:
Unproven
Consequences:
Gain Privileges
DESCRIPTION
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Parallels Desktop could allow a local authenticated attacker to gain elevated privileges on the system, caused by the lack of proper initialization of environment variables in the Updater service. By sending a specially-crafted request, an authenticated attacker could exploit this vulnerability to gain elevated privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of root.
CVSS 3.0 Information
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Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged
Access Vector:
Local
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