---
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'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.