ASUS Armoury Crate/Armoury Crate SE uncontrolled search path

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A vulnerability was found in ASUS Armoury Crate and Armoury Crate SE. It has been classified as critical. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to uncontrolled search path. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-102438. The attack needs to be performed locally. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in ASUS Armoury Crate and Armoury Crate SE (unknown version). This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncontrolled search path vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-427. The product uses a fixed or controlled search path to find resources, but one or more locations in that path can be under the control of unintended actors. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability in ASUS Armoury Crate allows local users to execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges via replacement of a dynamic-link library (DLL) that is later loaded by a high-privilege process. 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-2026-102438 since 09/29/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. 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 10/20/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1574 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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• Rust Package

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• ASUS

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• Armoury Crate
• Armoury Crate SE

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.asus.com/

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