ASUS AI Suite/GPU Tweak III/GPUTweakII/VGAdll null pointer dereference

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A vulnerability was found in ASUS AI Suite, GPU Tweak III, GPUTweakII and VGAdll. It has been classified as very critical. The affected element is an unknown function. Performing a manipulation results in null pointer dereference. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-8917. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in ASUS AI Suite, GPU Tweak III, GPUTweakII and VGAdll (unknown version). It has been classified as very critical. This affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a null pointer dereference vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-476. A NULL pointer dereference occurs when the application dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid, but is NULL, typically causing a crash or exit. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at asus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-8917 since 05/19/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/11/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Artificial Intelligence Software

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• ASUS

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• AI Suite
• GPUTweakII
• GPU Tweak III
• VGAdll

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.asus.com/

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