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CVE-2024-6240

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-6240 is a critical improper privilege management vulnerability in Parallels Desktop versions prior to 19.3.0. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by injecting malicious code into the BASH_ENV variable, leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation upon application startup. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability poses a severe risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, the high FAUCET Risk Score of 80/100 indicates its potential for future exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 19.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:parallels:parallels_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*
>= 0, < 19.3.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:parallels:parallels_desktop:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.7HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
24.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0032 is in the 3rd percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

incibe.es / en/incibe-cert/notices/aviso/improper-privilege-management-vulnerability-parallels-desktop
Third Party Advisory