{"id":"CVE-2026-8917","title":"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.…","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.…","severity":"high","cvss":8.4,"cvssVector":"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","cwe":["CWE-822"],"vendor":"ASUS","product":"GPU Tweak III","affected":["gpu_tweak_iii through V2.1.1.7","GPUTweakII through V2.4.0.0","ai_suite3 through V2.1.2.0","VGAdll through V0.0.7.8"],"published":"2026-08-11","updated":"2026-09-17","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-17T09:16:42.690","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8917","references":[{"url":"https://www.asus.com/security-advisory","label":"54bf65a7-a193-42d2-b1ba-8e150d3c35e1"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00114,"epssPercentile":0.01673,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-08-12T18:52:02.810606Z"},"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-09-17T09:14:58.449Z","slug":"CVE-2026-8917","body":"## Overview\n\nUntrusted 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.\nRefer to the ' \nSecurity 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":46,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":46.2,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}