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Medium · 5.4 Public exploit CVE-2026-1880 EUVD-2026-23155

An Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource vulnerability in the ASUS DriverHub update process allows privilege escalation due…

Published Apr 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 17, 2026 · Assigned by ASUS

Vendor: ASUS Product: DriverHub

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
ASUS DriverHub before 1.0.6.12 —

Public exploits

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GitHub 1 repository

  • seokjohn/CVE-2026-1880 ★ 5 · Apr 16, 2026

    ASUS DriverHub Driver Update Process TOCTOU Vulnerability Leading to LPE

Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.

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