CVE-2026-8917 PUBLISHED

Assigner: ASUS
Reserved: 19.05.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 4.0

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.4

Exploitability Metrics		Vulnerable System Impact Metrics		Subsequent System Impact Metrics
Attack Vector	Local	Confidentiality	High	Confidentiality	None
Attack Complexity	Low	Integrity	High	Integrity	None
Attack Requirements	None	Availability	High	Availability	None
Privileges Required	High
User Interaction	None

CVSS 4.0

Product Status

Vendor	ASUS
Product	GPU Tweak III
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to V2.1.1.7 (incl.)

Vendor	ASUS
Product	GPUTweakII
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to V2.4.0.0 (incl.)

Vendor	ASUS
Product	AI Suite3
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to V2.1.2.0 (incl.)

Vendor	ASUS
Product	VGAdll
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to V0.0.7.8 (incl.)

Credits

Angelo Frasca Caccia finder
SentinelOne finder

References

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

Problem Types

CWE-822: Untrusted Pointer Dereference CWE