{"id":"CVE-2026-8918","title":"A permissive list of allowed inputs in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local administrator to perform arbitrary memory read/write operations or cause a system crash (BSOD) by bypassing the validation mechanism.Refer to the '\nSecurity Update …","summary":"A permissive list of allowed inputs in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local administrator to perform arbitrary memory read/write operations or cause a system crash (BSOD) by bypassing the validation mechanism.Refer to the '\nSecurity Update …","severity":"high","cvss":7.1,"cvssVector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N","cwe":["CWE-183"],"vendor":"ASUS","product":"Armoury Crate","affected":["armoury_crate through 6.4.12"],"published":"2026-06-22","updated":"2026-09-17","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-17T09:16:42.820","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8918","references":[{"url":"https://www.asus.com/security-advisory","label":"54bf65a7-a193-42d2-b1ba-8e150d3c35e1"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"epss":0.00279,"epssPercentile":0.20684,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-06-23T00:00:00+00:00"},"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-09-17T09:14:58.448Z","slug":"CVE-2026-8918","body":"## Overview\n\nA permissive list of allowed inputs in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local administrator to perform arbitrary memory read/write operations or cause a system crash (BSOD) by bypassing the validation mechanism.Refer to the '\nSecurity Update for Armoury Crate App ' 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":39,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":39.1,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}