{
  "id": 7800919,
  "title": "Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can't Install Fix",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/parallels-desktop-flaw-lets-non-admin-mac-users-gain-root-but-intel",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T13:14:05.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/parallels-desktop-flaw-lets-non-admin.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack needs code already running on the machine as a normal user, so it does not work over the network. JFrog says the fix is in Parallels Desktop 27, a version that Intel Macs cannot install. Yuval Moravchick, who leads",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}