CVE-2026-8918
ASUS Armoury Crate Local Privilege Escalation via Arbitrary Memory Corruption
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.
INFO
Published Date :
June 22, 2026, 2 a.m.
Last Modified :
June 22, 2026, 2 a.m.
Remotely Exploit :
No
Source :
ASUS
CVSS Scores
| Score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 4.0 | HIGH | 54bf65a7-a193-42d2-b1ba-8e150d3c35e1 |
Solution
- Update ASUS Armoury Crate to the latest version.
- Apply security updates from ASUS.
- Reboot the system after applying updates.
We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).
Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.
The following list is the news that have been mention
CVE-2026-8918 vulnerability anywhere in the article.