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CVE-2026-40573

NovumOS: Nova Interpreter Privilege Escalation

Products / packages MinecAnton209 NovumOS

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Severity and exploitation

Not in CISA KEV

KEV coverage does not rule out exploitation.

KEV checked 14/11/2026, 22:20:30 UTC
GitHub_M · CVSS:3.1 · 8.6
Assessment vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity

high8.6

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Known exploitation

Not listed in the checked CISA KEV catalog

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Public exploit

Exploit reference published

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Remediation

Fix status not established

No structured fix or guidance is available here. Check the latest publisher advisory.

What this means

NovumOS versions prior to 0.25-beta.1 have a privilege escalation weakness, allowing local users to execute code with kernel privileges via a malicious `.nv` script. The `Nova` interpreter runs in Ring 0 with unrestricted kernel-memory access. Local access is required to exploit this weakness.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

Attack conditions

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Affected versions

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MinecAnton209 · GitHub_M

NovumOS

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affected

< 0.25-beta.1

unaffected

unknown

Other versions: unknown

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What to do

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Public exploit evidence

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MinecAnton209/NovumOS · security/advisories/GHSA-rq9v-wxp3-ffrr ↗Attributed to CISA-ADP

Original source description

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NovumOS is a custom 32-bit operating system written in Zig and x86 Assembly. Prior to version 0.25-beta.1, the Nova interpreter runs in Ring 0 with unrestricted kernel-memory access. Loading a malicious .nv script through the shell permits a local user to execute code with kernel privileges without security checks. The advisory identifies VM initialization in zig/nova/vm.zig as the affected component; script execution is not isolated in a restricted Ring 3 privilege domain. This issue is fixed in version 0.25-beta.1.

References

3 sources
MinecAnton209/NovumOS · security/advisories/GHSA-rq9v-wxp3-ffrr
Public exploit referenceGitHub_M · CISA-ADP
MinecAnton209/NovumOS · commit ca3e7a6
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MinecAnton209/NovumOS · tree/v0.25-beta.1
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Original records

CVE-2026-40573

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Underlying weaknesses

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CWE-250 ↗

CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

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Assigning organization

2026-10-30
CISA-ADP

Additional data publisher

2026-11-05

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  1. CVE · CVE-2026-40573

    Observed 2026-11-05T03:15:07.633Z · upstream updated 2026-11-05T02:46:22.700Z

    Prioritization updated

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        "name": "Exploitation",
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        "name": "Automatable",
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