CVE-2025-30074 Privilege escalation in Parallels Desktop
High 7.8
Published
Updated
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-30074 and fix it if it is affected.
What it is: CVE-2025-30074 is a high-severity vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, published on 16 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-30074 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Affected product: Parallels Desktop. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.
Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.
Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30074/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-30074/index.md)
Attackers can escalate privileges to root on macOS Intel systems via the VM creation routine in Parallels Desktop.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-30074?
CVE-2025-30074 is a high-severity vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, published on 16 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Alludo Parallels Desktop before 19.4.2 and 20.x before 20.2.2 for macOS on Intel platforms allows privilege escalation to root via the VM creation routine.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-30074?
How do I fix CVE-2025-30074?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-30074 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2025-30074 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-30074 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c7p8-mg6m-crg2.