CVE-2020-1885 Path traversal in Oculus Desktop
Local attackers can gain privileges by exploiting a hard link vulnerability in the Oculus Desktop application's log file handling.
- 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-2020-1885?
CVE-2020-1885 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in Facebook Oculus Desktop, published on 8 Apr 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Writing to an unprivileged file from a privileged OVRRedir.exe process in Oculus Desktop before 1.44.0.32849 on Windows allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain privileges via vectors involving a hard link to a log file.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-1885?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oculus Desktop.
How do I fix CVE-2020-1885?
No fix has been published for CVE-2020-1885 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2020-1885 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1885 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Facebook Oculus Desktop
Sources
Also known as GHSA-jmc3-547v-q3qv.