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title: "CVE-2026-102438: ASUS Armoury Crate - Remote Code Execution & Privilege Escalation"
description: "ASUS Armoury Crate contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability caused by DLL replacement, letting local users execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges, exploit requires local access."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-102438/
---

# CVE-2026-102438 ASUS Armoury Crate - Remote Code Execution & Privilege Escalation

ASUS Armoury Crate contains an uncontrolled search path element vulnerability caused by DLL replacement, letting local users execute arbitrary code with SYSTEM privileges, exploit requires local access.

CVSS base score 8.5 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102438)

## Details

Type

Remote Code Execution

Impact

Remote Code Execution, Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Published

20 October 2026

Updated

20 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-427](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/427.html)

## Vendor fix

Apply the security update provided by ASUS for Armoury Crate.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102438](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102438)
- [https://www.asus.com/security-advisory](https://www.asus.com/security-advisory)

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## What this record can't tell you

- Whether you run the affected software, and where
- Whether an attacker can actually reach and exploit it
- The misconfigurations that never get a CVE number
- What it would cost the business, ranked into what to fix first

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