Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-8070 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-8070 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-8070?
- Informational severity, with a CVSS score of 7.3, published 29 May 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- ASUS Armoury Crate.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-8070?
- 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-2026-8070 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access, in a network appliance.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-8070?
- 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
A vulnerability classified as Incorrect Permission Assignment (CWE-732) exists in the ASUS Armoury Crate application. The flaw resides in how the software manages permissions for a critical resource, which allows a local attacker with low privileges to bypass the driver's internal validation mechanisms. By successfully exploiting this bypass, the attacker can perform unauthorized read and write operations directly to physical memory. This level of access can be used to escalate privileges or execute arbitrary code at the kernel level. ASUS has addressed this in a security update for the Armoury Crate app.
Affected products
- ASUS Armoury Crate
Timeline
- 2026-05-29: advisory: NVD publication date
- 2026-05-28: disclosed: ASUS reported the vulnerability to the CVE program