CVE-2026-16005: ASUS Armoury Crate

Medium severity, CVSS 5.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference in Armoury Crate driver allows a local user to free arbitrary memory via a crafted IOCTL request by bypassing the driver's verification, which can corrupt data structures and cause a system crash (BSOD).Refer to the ' Security Update for Armoury Crate App  ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

Affected products

• ASUS Armoury Crate: up to and including 6.5.7

Published 2026-09-08. Last modified 2026-09-17.