CVE-2026-1878

Description

An Insufficient Integrity Verification vulnerability in the ASUS ROG peripheral driver installation process allows privilege escalation to SYSTEM. The vulnerability is due to improper access control on the installation directory, which enables the exploitation of a race condition where the legitimate installer is substituted with an unexpected payload immediately after download, resulting in arbitrary code execution. Refer to the "Security Update for ASUS ROG peripheral driver" section on the ASUS Security Advisory for more information.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-02-04 | Published 2026-03-12 | Updated 2026-03-13 | Assigner ASUS

Problem types

CWE-494 Download of Code Without Integrity Check

Product status

References

www.asus.com/security-advisory/

cve.org (CVE-2026-1878)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-1878)

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