Vulnerability · Published Aug 18, 2021 · Assigned by facebook
CVE-2021-24038
High 7.8
In plain English
A high-severity privilege mismanagement in Oculus Desktop from Facebook. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 10% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 89.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
Due to a bug with management of handles in OVRServiceLauncher.exe, an attacker could expose a privileged process handle to an unprivileged process, leading to local privilege escalation. This issue affects Oculus Desktop versions after 1.39 and prior to 31.1.0.67.507.
Affected products (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Oculus Desktop | unspecified – before 31.1.0.67.507 |
Weakness: CWE-269
References
- https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2021-24038 x_refsource_CONFIRM