ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7 IOCTL information disclosure

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A vulnerability has been found in ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7 and classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component IOCTL Handler. Performing a manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-16006. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7. This affects an unknown part of the component IOCTL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to obtain kernel virtual addresses via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the driver's verification, potentially providing further insight into the kernel memory layout.Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App  ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

The advisory is shared at asus.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-16006 since 07/17/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

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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Type

• Rust Package

Vendor

• ASUS

Name

• Armoury Crate

Version

• 6.5.0
• 6.5.1
• 6.5.2
• 6.5.3
• 6.5.4
• 6.5.5
• 6.5.6
• 6.5.7

License

• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.asus.com/

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