CVE-2022-38699: ASUS Armoury Crate Service

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Armoury Crate Service’s logging function has insufficient validation to check if the log file is a symbolic link. A physical attacker with general user privilege can modify the log file property to a symbolic link that points to arbitrary system file, causing the logging function to overwrite the system file and disrupt the system.

Affected products

• ASUS Armoury Crate Service: before 5.2.10.0 (fixed in 5.2.10.0)

Published 2022-09-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.