CVE-2026-16727
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Received - Intake
Race Condition in ASUS Armoury Crate Leads to Privilege Escalation
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-16727, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-07-30
Last updated on: 2026-07-30
Assigner: ASUS
Description
Description
Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (“Race Condition”) in ASUS Armoury Crate allows a local user to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges via a crafted file replacement.
Refer to the ' Security Update for ASUS Armoury Crate ' section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| asus | armoury_crate | * |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-362 | The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently. |
