{"id":"CVE-2021-40981","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2021-40981","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T21:09:11.560Z","title":"ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file in the publicly writable %PROGRAMDATA%\\ASUS\\GamingCenterLib directory.","description":"ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file in the publicly writable %PROGRAMDATA%\\ASUS\\GamingCenterLib directory.","published":"2021-09-27T06:15:08.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T04:07:42.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-427"],"affected":["asus/armoury crate lite service"],"epss":{"score":0.004,"percentile":0.33991,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.40%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://aptw.tf/2021/09/24/armoury-crate-privesc.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://aptw.tf/2021/09/24/armoury-crate-privesc.html","tags":["Exploit","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-40981","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}