CVE-2022-42455 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

ASUS EC Tool driver (aka d.sys) 1beb15c90dcf7a5234ed077833a0a3e900969b60be1d04fcebce0a9f8994bdbb, as signed by ASUS and shipped with multiple ASUS software products, contains multiple IOCTL handlers that provide raw read and write access to port I/O and MSRs via unprivileged IOCTL calls. Local users can gain privileges.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00034.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Asus Subscribe	Armoury Crate Subscribe

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:asus:armoury_crate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-45528	ASUS EC Tool driver (aka d.sys) 1beb15c90dcf7a5234ed077833a0a3e900969b60be1d04fcebce0a9f8994bdbb, as signed by ASUS and shipped with multiple ASUS software products, contains multiple IOCTL handlers that provide raw read and write access to port I/O and MSRs via unprivileged IOCTL calls. Local users can gain privileges.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/mandiant/Vulnerability-Disclosures/blob/master/2023/MNDT-2023-0003.md

History

Wed, 19 Mar 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-269
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Projects

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-15T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-19T18:00:16.253Z

Reserved: 2022-10-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42455

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:10:40.774Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-15T21:15:10.637

Modified: 2025-03-19T18:15:17.673

Link: CVE-2022-42455

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

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