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CVE-2026-40572

NovumOS has Arbitrary Memory Mapping via Syscall 15 (MemoryMapRange)

CVSS 9 CRITICALEPSS 0.2%CWE-269
Vexday Risk Score
28Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 9EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC Nuclei Metasploit Patch
Lifecycle
18 Apr 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
MinecAnton209 · NovumOS