CVE-2026-40572 CRITICAL

CVE-2026-40572: NovumOS has Arbitrary Memory Mapping via Syscall 15 (MemoryMapRange)

Vendor Minecanton209
Product NovumOS
Weakness CWE-269
Published April 18, 2026
Last update April 20, 2026

CVSS base score

9.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 18, 2026 CVE published
April 20, 2026 Record updated