CVE-2021-40981
Published on: 09/27/2021 12:00:00 AM UTC
Last Modified on: 10/01/2021 08:08:00 PM UTC
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 |
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Stealing weapons from the Armoury | APT::WTF - APTortellini’s blog | aptw.tf text/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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |