CVE-2025-59374 describes a critical supply chain compromise affecting older, End-of-Support (EOS) versions of the ASUS Live Update client, where unauthorized modifications could lead to devices performing unintended actions under specific targeting conditions. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical) due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. The vulnerability is actively exploited, as confirmed by its inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, despite the lack of public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 3.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:asus:live_update:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.