ASUS Armoury Crate Vulnerability: Hackers’ Delight or Users’ Fright?
ASUS Armoury Crate has a high-severity bug, CVE-2025-3464, allowing attackers to escalate privileges on Windows systems. The vulnerability, scored 8.8 out of 10, affects versions 5.9.9.0 to 6.1.18.0. Hackers could exploit this flaw to gain SYSTEM access, so users are urged to update immediately.
Hot Take:
ASUS’s Armoury Crate might be the Swiss Army knife of PC control, but it just got a new attachment: the “Get Yourself Hacked” tool! With a vulnerability that could let threat actors escalate privileges faster than an intern’s coffee-fetching skills, it’s clear that some knives should be kept dull!
Key Points:
- Vulnerability CVE-2025-3464 in ASUS Armoury Crate scores a high 8.8 out of 10 in severity.
- Flaw allows escalation of privileges to SYSTEM level by exploiting AsIO3.sys driver.
- Attack involves tricking the driver with a hardcoded SHA-256 hash and linked fake executable.
- Exploit requires prior system access, but widespread software use increases attack surface.
- ASUS advises updating Armoury Crate to versions beyond 6.1.18.0 to mitigate the flaw.
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