CVE-2022-36438: ASUS Asusswitch

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• ASUS Asusswitch: before 1.0.10.0 (fixed in 1.0.10.0)
• ASUS System Control Interface: from 3.0.0.0, before 3.1.5.0 (fixed in 3.1.5.0)

Published 2022-10-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.