CVE-2020-1885 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Oculus Desktop before version 1.44.0.32849 on Windows. A privileged OVRRedir.exe process can be tricked into writing to an unprivileged file, allowing an attacker to write to arbitrary files and gain elevated privileges through a hard link to a log file. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH), indicating high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity and requiring low privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.44.0.32849CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:oculus:desktop:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.