CVE-2021-24038

7.8 highEPSS 0.2%

High (7.8) in oculus desktop. EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 10% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-269
Published: 2021-08-19
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

oculus:desktop

References

https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2021-24038
https://www.facebook.com/security/advisories/cve-2021-24038

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