Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-782

Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control

The product implements an IOCTL with functionality that should be restricted, but it does not properly enforce access control for the IOCTL.

CVE-2026-6737 (GCVE-0-2026-6737)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-08 02:00 – Updated: 2026-05-08 13:02
VLAI
Summary
An Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control vulnerability in AsusPTPFilter allows a local user to bypass driver security mechanisms and obtain restricted touchpad information or render the touchpad unusable via crafted IOCTL requests.Refer to the ' Security Update for ASUS Precision Touchpad ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-782 - Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ASUS AsusPTPFilter Affected: 0 , ≤ 16.0.0.45 (custom)
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Mitigation

Phase: Architecture and Design

Description:

  • In Windows environments, use proper access control for the associated device or device namespace. See References.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.

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