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One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software


One-Click RCE in ASUS’s Preinstalled Driver Software Introduction This story begins with a conversation about new PC parts. After ignoring the advice from my friend, I bought a new ASUS motherboard for my PC. I was a little concerned about having a BIOS that would by default silently install software into my OS in the background. But it could be turned off so I figured I would just do that.

Immediately after logging into Windows I was hit with a notification requesting admin permissions to complete the installation of ASUS DriverHub, because I forgot to change the BIOS option. After a month of waiting I am happy to say that my test domain is the only website that fits the regex, meaning it is unlikely that this was being actively exploited prior to my reporting of it. When submitting the vulnerability report through ASUS’s Security Advisory form, Amazon CloudFront flagged the attached PoC as a malicious request and blocked the submission.

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