CVE-2026-8917 (GCVE-0-2026-8917)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-11 02:00 – Updated: 2026-08-12 18:52
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 18:52 UTC
CWE
- CWE-822 - Untrusted Pointer Dereference
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
4 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASUS | GPU Tweak III |
Affected:
0 , ≤ V2.1.1.7
(custom)
|
|
| ASUS | GPUTweakII |
Affected:
0 , ≤ V2.4.0.0
(custom)
|
|
| ASUS | AI Suite3 |
Affected:
0 , ≤ V2.1.2.0
(custom)
|
|
| ASUS | VGAdll |
Affected:
0 , ≤ V0.0.7.8
(custom)
|
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
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