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CVE-2026-16005

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.8 v4.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-08 · updated 2026-09-17
• Weakness: CWE-763

Description

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.

Affected products

• ASUS Armoury Crate: through 6.5.7

References

• https://www.asus.com/security-advisory

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