PT-2026-70053
CVE-2026-8917
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Published
2026-08-11
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Updated
2026-09-17
Description by
CVSS 4.0
8.4
HighMetricsAV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
ASUS GPU Tweak III (affected versions not specified)
ASUS GPU Tweak II (affected versions not specified)
ASUS AI Suite 3 (affected versions not specified)
VGAdll (affected versions not specified)
Description
An untrusted pointer dereference exists within an IOCTL (Input/Output Control) mechanism. This allows a local attacker to write a specific value to an arbitrary memory address, which could lead to privilege escalation. IOCTL is a system call used by applications to communicate with device drivers.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
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