Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-102438 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-102438 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-102438?
- Informational severity, published 20 October 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- ASUS Armoury Crate.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-102438?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-102438 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-102438?
- Check whether you run ASUS Armoury Crate. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
An uncontrolled search path element vulnerability in ASUS Armoury Crate allows local DLL injection: a low-privilege attacker can place a malicious DLL in a directory searched before the legitimate library, causing a high-privilege process to load and execute the attacker's code with SYSTEM privileges. This is a classic DLL hijacking attack requiring local access but no user interaction.
Affected products
- ASUS Armoury Crate
Timeline
- 2026-10-20: disclosed