CVE-2021-47852: Rockstar Games Launcher

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Rockstar Games Launcher 1.0.37.349 contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that allows authenticated users to modify the service executable with weak permissions. Attackers can replace the RockstarService.exe with a malicious binary to create a new administrator user and gain elevated system access.

Affected products

Published 2026-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.