CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-1880

MediumCVSS 5.4
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.14%

4th percentile - higher than 4% of all known CVEs

Summary

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the ASUS DriverHub update process allows privilege escalation due to improper protection of required execution resources during the validation phase. This permits a local user to make unprivileged modifications, allowing the altered resource to pass system checks and be executed with elevated privileges upon a user-initiated update.

Risk Assessment

A local user can gain elevated privileges, potentially leading to full system compromise.

Recommendation

Install the ASUS DriverHub security update as per the ASUS Security Advisory (see 'Security Update for ASUS DriverHub' section).

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the ASUS DriverHub update process allows privilege escalation due to improper protection of required execution resources during the validation phase, permitting a local user to make unprivileged modifications. This allows the altered resource to pass system checks and be executed with elevated privileges upon a user-initiated update. Refer to the 'Security Update for ASUS DriverHub' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

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