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Critical · 9.0 CVE-2026-40572 EUVD-2026-23640

NovumOS has Arbitrary Memory Mapping via Syscall 15 (MemoryMapRange)

Published Apr 18, 2026 · Updated Apr 20, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MinecAnton209 NovumOS < 0.24 —

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