CVE-2021-40981

HIGH

ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite <4.2.10 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file in the publicly writable %PROGRAMDATA%\ASUS\GamingCenterLib directory.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://aptw.tf/2021/09/24/armoury-crate-privesc.html

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3

EPSS 0.0005

EPSS Percentile 15.8%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-427

Status published

Products (1)

asus/armoury_crate_lite_service < 4.2.10

Published Sep 27, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026