CVE-2026-16005
Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to free arbitrary memory via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the driver's verification, which can corrupt data structures and cause a system crash (BSOD).Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 5.8
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.09%
- CWE
- CWE-763
- Published
- 2026-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-09-08
Affected products
- ASUS Armoury Crate
Weakness type
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