CVE-2025-9968 Path traversal in Armoury Crate
A local attacker can exploit a link following vulnerability in Armoury Crate to achieve privilege escalation via a crafted junction.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-9968?
CVE-2025-9968 is a high-severity path traversal vulnerability in ASUS Armoury Crate, published on 13 Oct 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A link following vulnerability exists in the UnifyScanner component of Armoury Crate. This vulnerability may be triggered by creating a specially crafted junction, potentially leading to local privilege escalation. For more information, please refer to section 'Security Update for Armoury Crate App' in the ASUS Security Advisory.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9968?
How do I fix CVE-2025-9968?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-9968 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-9968 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9968 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xvg3-v23f-88p6.