CVE Catalog

CVE-2019-25764

HighCVSS 7.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.09%

1th percentile - higher than 1% of all known CVEs

Summary

The ASUS AURA SYNC driver exposes an IOCTL with insufficient access control, allowing a local user to bypass driver verification and invoke arbitrary IOCTLs, resulting in privilege escalation. This vulnerability is unsupported (UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED).

Risk Assessment

The organization faces the risk of privilege escalation by a local user who can gain unauthorized access to the system and potentially take control of sensitive resources.

Recommendation

It is recommended to immediately uninstall the ASUS AURA SYNC driver and follow ASUS's guidance for legacy drivers as per the 'End-of-Life Notice and Driver Update for Legacy ASUS Drivers' section in the ASUS Security Advisory.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

**UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED**  Exposed IOCTL with Insufficient Access Control in the ASUS AURA SYNC driver allows a local user to bypass the driver's verification and invoke arbitrary IOCTLs, resulting in privilege escalation. Refer to the 'End-of-Life Notice and Driver Update for Legacy ASUS Drivers ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS