ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7 Armoury Crate driver access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7. It has been classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Armoury Crate driver. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-16003. An attack has to be approached locally. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in ASUS Armoury Crate up to 6.5.7. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Armoury Crate driver. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. Impacted is integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to add an arbitrary process identifier to the driver's whitelist via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the driver's verification.Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App  ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

It is possible to read the advisory at asus.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-16003 since 07/17/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-284 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Timelineinfo

07/17/2026 CVE reserved
09/08/2026 +53 days Advisory disclosed
09/08/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/08/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: asus.com

Advisory: asus.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-16003 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-16003
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-399719

Entryinfo

Created: 09/08/2026 04:47
Changes: 09/08/2026 04:47 (65)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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