# CVE-2024-57972: Denial of service in HoloLens

> Remote attackers can cause denial of service on Microsoft HoloLens devices by flooding the pairing API with requests, rendering the device unusable.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 6 Mar 2025
- **Updated:** 7 Mar 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-xfr2-g2r2-vf88

## What is CVE-2024-57972?

CVE-2024-57972 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft HoloLens, published on 6 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### 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.

Weakness: CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-57972?


## How do I fix CVE-2024-57972?

No fix has been published for CVE-2024-57972 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2024-57972 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-57972 exists.

Public exploit code:

- https://github.com/tania-silva/CVE-2024-57972 (github_poc): https://github.com/tania-silva/CVE-2024-57972

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2024-57972 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2024-57972 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Microsoft HoloLens, published on 6 Mar 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2024-57972 exists.

Affected product: Microsoft HoloLens. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57972/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57972/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-57972
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-57972
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-57972

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-57972/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.