CVE-2022-42455: ASUS Armoury Crate

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

ASUS EC Tool driver (aka d.sys) 1beb15c90dcf7a5234ed077833a0a3e900969b60be1d04fcebce0a9f8994bdbb, as signed by ASUS and shipped with multiple ASUS software products, contains multiple IOCTL handlers that provide raw read and write access to port I/O and MSRs via unprivileged IOCTL calls. Local users can gain privileges.

Affected products

• ASUS Armoury Crate: before 5.3.4.1 (fixed in 5.3.4.1)

Published 2023-02-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.