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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.0 Critical

CVE-2026-40572

NovumOS has Arbitrary Memory Mapping via Syscall 15 (MemoryMapRange)

Description

NovumOS is a custom 32-bit operating system written in Zig and x86 Assembly. In versions prior to 0.24, Syscall 15 (MemoryMapRange) allows Ring 3 user-mode processes to map arbitrary virtual address ranges into their address space without validating against forbidden regions, including critical kernel structures such as the IDT, GDT, TSS, and page tables. A local attacker can exploit this to modify kernel interrupt handlers, resulting in privilege escalation from user mode to kernel context. This issue has been fixed in version 0.24.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

MinecAnton209 NovumOS

  • < 0.24affected

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