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ASUSCVE-2026-8917

ASUS AI Suite3: privilege escalation

High8.4CVE-2026-8917 · Published Aug 11, 2026 · updated Sep 17, 2026

Untrusted Pointer Dereference in ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPUTweakII, AI Suite3, and VGAdll: An IOCTL vulnerability allows a local attacker to write a specific value to an arbitrary memory address, potentially leading to privilege escalation. Refer to the '  Security Update for ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPU Tweak II, AI Suite 3, and Armoury Crate Security Bulletin   ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

ASUS advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
AI Suite3
Product
<= through V2.1.2.0No fix yet
GPU Tweak III
Product
<= through V2.1.1.7No fix yet
GPUTweakII
Product
<= through V2.4.0.0No fix yet
VGAdll
Product
<= through V0.0.7.8No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/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/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-822

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