CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-36438

7.8 HIGH Published 2022-10-18 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-10-18
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-276

Description

AsusSwitch.exe on ASUS personal computers (running Windows) sets weak file permissions, leading to local privilege escalation (this also can be used to delete files within the system arbitrarily). This affects ASUS System Control Interface 3 before 3.1.5.0, and AsusSwitch.exe before 1.0.10.0.

Affected configurations

• asus asusswitch (< 1.0.10.0) • asus system control interface (>= 3.0.0.0 < 3.1.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness

References