5.5Medium
CVE-2026-90891
ASRock Polychrome SYNC/RGB software utility developed by ASRock Inc. has an Improper Access Control vulnerability. Authenticated local attackers can send a specially crafted IOCTL request to cause the driver to write to improperly restricted I/O ports, resulting in a forced operating system reboot.
What this means for your business
- An attacker can use it only with access to the machine itself, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
What to do
- 1Ask your IT team or provider whether any of your systems use the affected product.
- 2If you do, follow the vendor's guidance. No patch reference has been published yet.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 5.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- CVSS v4
- 6.8
- Weakness
- CWE-1256
- Assigned by
- twcert@cert.org.tw
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last modified
- 2026-09-18
- Sources
- NVD