Vulnerability · Published Mar 6, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2024-57972
Medium 6.5
In plain English
A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in HoloLens from Microsoft. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 2.6% (higher than 86% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official description
The pairing API request handler in Microsoft HoloLens 1 (Windows Holographic) through 10.0.17763.3046 and HoloLens 2 (Windows Holographic) through 10.0.22621.1244 allows remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service (resource consumption and device unusability) by sending many requests through the Device Portal framework.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H