Vulnerability database
Every flaw the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency (CISA) has confirmed attackers are using, plus the new WordPress plugin and theme bugs published each day, sorted by what they mean for a small business. We refresh it twice a day. If you see something your website or office runs, tell us.
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Sep 14, 2026Parallels Desktop runs prl_disp_service as root.CVE-2026-90894 · Other software · Parallels · reported by reefs@jfrog.comHigh 7.8
Parallels Desktop runs prl_disp_service as root. Local clients reach it on the world-writable socket /var/run/prl_disp_service.socket. PrlSrv_LoginLocal accepts peer credentials. No Parallels signature. No admin group. After login, PrlSrv_InstallAppliance lets you pick the appliance folder (sVmParentPath). The daemon unpacks with one string, tar -xf "%1" -C "%2", then Qt QProcess::splitCommand chops that string into words. A quote in the folder name closes early. The leftover text becomes extra tar flags. macOS tar --use-compress-program= runs the named program as root.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop for Mac
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordkb.parallels.comparallels.com
Jun 3, 2025A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the PVMP package unpacking functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.2.2 (55879).CVE-2025-31359 · Other software · Parallels · reported by talos-cna@cisco.comHigh 8.8
A directory traversal vulnerability exists in the PVMP package unpacking functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.2.2 (55879). This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker to write to arbitrary files, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop for Mac
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordtalosintelligence.comtalosintelligence.com
Jun 3, 2025A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740).CVE-2024-54189 · Other software · Parallels · reported by talos-cna@cisco.comHigh 7.8
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740). When a snapshot of a virtual machine is taken, a root service writes to a file owned by a normal user. By using a hard link, an attacker can write to an arbitrary file, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop for Mac
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordtalosintelligence.comtalosintelligence.com
Jun 3, 2025A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740).CVE-2024-52561 · Other software · Parallels · reported by talos-cna@cisco.comHigh 7.8
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Snapshot functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (build 55740). When a snapshot of a virtual machine is deleted, a root service verifies and modifies the ownership of the snapshot files. By using a symlink, an attacker can change the ownership of files owned by root to a lower-privilege user, potentially leading to privilege escalation.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop for Mac
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordtalosintelligence.comtalosintelligence.com
Jun 3, 2025A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the virtual machine archive restoration functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (55740).CVE-2024-36486 · Other software · Parallels · reported by talos-cna@cisco.comHigh 7.8
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the virtual machine archive restoration functionality of Parallels Desktop for Mac version 20.1.1 (55740). When an archived virtual machine is restored, the prl_vmarchiver tool decompresses the file and writes the content back to its original location using root privileges. An attacker can exploit this process by using a hard link to write to an arbitrary file, potentially resulting in privilege escalation.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop for Mac
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordtalosintelligence.comtalosintelligence.com
Sep 23, 2024A lack of code signature verification in Parallels Desktop for Mac v19.3.0 and below allows attackers to escalate privileges via a crafted macOS installer, becaCVE-2024-34331 · Other software · parallels · reported by MITRECritical 9.8
A lack of code signature verification in Parallels Desktop for Mac v19.3.0 and below allows attackers to escalate privileges via a crafted macOS installer, because Parallels Service is setuid root.
- Product
- parallels_desktop
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordkb.parallels.comkhronokernel.com
Mar 2, 2007Parallels Desktop for Mac before 20070216 implements Drag and Drop by sharing the entire host filesystem as the .psf share, which allows local users of the guesCVE-2007-1222 · Other software · Parallels · reported by MITREHigh 7.2
Parallels Desktop for Mac before 20070216 implements Drag and Drop by sharing the entire host filesystem as the .psf share, which allows local users of the guest operating system to write arbitrary files to the host filesystem, and execute arbitrary code via launchd by writing a plist file to a LaunchAgents directory.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordlists.immunitysec.comosvdb.org
Nov 8, 2006prl_dhcpd in Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 1940 uses insecure permissions (0666) for /Library/Parallels/.dhcpd_configuration, which allows local users to modiCVE-2006-5817 · Other software · Parallels · reported by MITRELow 2.1
prl_dhcpd in Parallels Desktop for Mac Build 1940 uses insecure permissions (0666) for /Library/Parallels/.dhcpd_configuration, which allows local users to modify DHCP configuration.
- Product
- Parallels Desktop
- What to do
- Apply the vendor’s update. The NVD record links to the advisory.
Full record and what to do →NVD recordarchives.neohapsis.comsecunia.com
Where this comes from: the exploited list is CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Everything else is the whole National Vulnerability Database, where each record is published by the team that found the bug (Wordfence, Patchstack, WPScan, the vendors themselves and others); we show who. Exploit odds are FIRST’s EPSS, updated daily. Titles and categories are ours, so check the linked record before acting on a detail. For a write-up of the big ones, see our advisories. Every vendor, and every WordPress plugin and theme with a recorded flaw, also has its own page. All of it is free to reuse as JSON, CSV or RSS.
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