CVE-2026-8918
A permissive list of allowed inputs in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local administrator to perform arbitrary memory read/write operations or cause a system crash (BSOD) by bypassing the validation mechanism.Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.28%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
A permissive list of allowed inputs in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local administrator to perform arbitrary memory read/write operations or cause a system crash (BSOD) by bypassing the validation mechanism.Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.1 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.28% probability · 20th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-183
- Source
- 54bf65a7-a193-42d2-b1ba-8e150d3c35e1
References
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.