CVE-2021-40981

Published on: 09/27/2021 12:00:00 AM UTC

Last Modified on: 10/01/2021 08:08:00 PM UTC

CVE-2021-40981

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Certain versions of Armoury Crate Lite Service from Asus contain the following vulnerability:

ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Trojan horse file in the publicly writable %PROGRAMDATA%\ASUS\GamingCenterLib directory.

CVE-2021-40981 has been assigned by [email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as HIGH severity.

CVSS3 Score: 7.3 - HIGH

Attack Vector ^ⓘ	Attack Complexity	Privileges Required	User Interaction
LOCAL	LOW	LOW	REQUIRED
Scope	Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
UNCHANGED	HIGH	HIGH	HIGH

CVSS2 Score: 4.4 - MEDIUM

Access Vector^ⓘ	Access Complexity	Authentication
LOCAL	MEDIUM	NONE
Confidentiality Impact	Integrity Impact	Availability Impact
PARTIAL	PARTIAL	PARTIAL

CVE References

Description	Tags ^ⓘ	Link
Stealing weapons from the Armoury \| APT::WTF - APTortellini’s blog	aptw.tf text/html	MISC aptw.tf/2021/09/24/armoury-crate-privesc.html

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There are currently no QIDs associated with this CVE

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type	Vendor	Product	Version	Update	Edition	Language
Application	Asus	Armoury Crate Lite Service	All	All	All	All

cpe:2.3:a:asus:armoury_crate_lite_service:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:

No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE

Social Mentions

Source	Title	Posted (UTC)
@CVEreport	CVE-2021-40981 : ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Troja… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…	2021-09-27 06:06:23
@SecRiskRptSME	RT: CVE-2021-40981 ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite before 4.2.10 allows local users to gain privileges by placing a Tr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…	2021-09-27 07:34:06
/r/bag_o_news	Stealing weapons from the Armoury - Root cause analysis of a privilege escalation vulnerability in ASUS ROG Armoury Crate Lite Service v4.2.8 (CVE-2021-40981)	2021-10-16 17:11:01