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High severity7.7NVD Advisory· Published Jun 21, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2024-6240

CVE-2024-6240

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.

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Affected products

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  • Parallels/Desktop2 versions
    cpe:2.3:a:parallels:parallels_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*+ 1 more
    • cpe:2.3:a:parallels:parallels_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*range: <19.3.0
    • (no CPE)range: 0
  • Parallels/Desktop Softwarellm-create
    Range: <19.3.0

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