# CVE-2026-75808: ASUS Armoury Crate resource exhaustion in memory allocation

Source: https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-75808-asus-armoury-crate-resource-exhaustion-in-memory-allocation  
Publisher: Junglewise Threat Intelligence, https://junglewise.ai/threats  
Published: 2026-09-08. Updated: 2026-09-26  
License: CC BY 4.0 with a link back

CVE-2026-75808 · Severity: info · Published 2026-09-08

ASUS Armoury Crate is a system utility application used to manage device settings and peripherals. A local user can exploit insufficient resource controls in the application to exhaust system memory and cause a denial-of-service condition, making the system unresponsive or forcing a reboot.

Technologies: [ASUS Armoury Crate](https://junglewise.ai/threats/technologies/armoury-crate). Vendors: [ASUS](https://junglewise.ai/threats/vendors/asus).

## Quick answers

**Is CVE-2026-75808 exploited in the wild?** No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-75808 being exploited in the wild.

**How severe is CVE-2026-75808?** Informational severity, published 8 September 2026.

**Which products and versions are affected?** ASUS Armoury Crate <UNKNOWN>.

**Is there a fix for CVE-2026-75808?** 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-2026-75808 attacked?** It is attacked with local access.

**Am I affected by CVE-2026-75808?** Check whether you run ASUS Armoury Crate at an affected version. 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

The vulnerability is a resource exhaustion flaw (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) in ASUS Armoury Crate. The vulnerable component fails to enforce limits on memory allocation, and an attacker can bypass driver authentication to trigger unbounded memory allocation. This is a local-only attack requiring existing user access to the system. An attacker can achieve denial-of-service by exhausting available system memory. The vendor has released patches; users should apply the latest security update for Armoury Crate.

## Affected products

- ASUS Armoury Crate <UNKNOWN>

## Timeline

- 2026-09-08: disclosed

## References

- [https://www.asus.com/security-advisory](https://www.asus.com/security-advisory)

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- [ASUS Armoury Crate privilege escalation via driver authentication bypass](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-75811-asus-armoury-crate-privilege-escalation-via-driver-authentication)
- [ASUS Armoury Crate exposed dangerous method denial of service](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-75810-asus-armoury-crate-exposed-dangerous-method-denial-of-service)
- [ASUS Armoury Crate privilege escalation via insufficient IOCTL access control](https://junglewise.ai/threats/cve-2026-75809-asus-armoury-crate-privilege-escalation-via-insufficient-ioctl)