ASUS Control Center Express Agent up to 1.7.23 missing authentication

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in ASUS Control Center Express Agent up to 1.7.23. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to missing authentication. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-19397. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in ASUS Control Center Express Agent up to 1.7.23 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-306. The product does not perform any authentication for functionality that requires a provable user identity or consumes a significant amount of resources. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Missing authentication for a critical function in ASUS Control Center Express Agent allows an unauthenticated nearby user to control the host via a direct connection to the agent when the host has an active login session. Refer to the '  Security Update for ASUS Control Center Express Agent ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

The advisory is shared at asus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-19397 since 08/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

Upgrading to version 1.7.24 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-72612). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• ASUS

Name

• Control Center Express Agent

Version

• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.7.8
• 1.7.9
• 1.7.10
• 1.7.11
• 1.7.12
• 1.7.13
• 1.7.14
• 1.7.15
• 1.7.16
• 1.7.17
• 1.7.18
• 1.7.19
• 1.7.20
• 1.7.21
• 1.7.22
• 1.7.23

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.asus.com/

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Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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