CVE-2021-24038 Privilege escalation in Oculus Desktop
An attacker can exploit a handle management bug in Oculus Desktop to escalate privileges from an unprivileged process to a privileged one.
- 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-2021-24038?
CVE-2021-24038 is a high-severity vulnerability in Facebook Oculus Desktop, published on 18 Aug 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
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.
Weakness: CWE-269
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-24038?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Oculus Desktop.
How do I fix CVE-2021-24038?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-24038 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-24038 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-24038 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Facebook Oculus Desktop
Sources
Also known as GHSA-gr73-xmrv-34fc.