8.4high
CVE-2026-8917
Untrusted Pointer Dereference in ASUS GPU Tweak III, GPUTweakII, AI Suite3, and VGAdll: An IOCTL vulnerability allows a local attacker to w…
Published 2 mo ago · modified 51 d ago · JSON
CVSS
8.4
v4.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.2%
percentile 4%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
CISA SSVC assessment
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
- Assessed
- 2 mo ago
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.15% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 4.0 | 8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| CNA | 4.0 | 8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
Affected products
- ASUS GPU Tweak III
- ASUS GPUTweakII
- ASUS AI Suite3
- ASUS VGAdll
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-822 Untrusted Pointer Dereference
References
- asus.com /security-advisory
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2026-8917
- NVD: CVE-2026-8917
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