Local privilege escalation via MPU range overflow
Published Jul 14, 2026 · Updated Jul 14, 2026
Integer overflow in Zephyr RTOS 3.7.0 through 4.4.0 allows local users to read or write protected memory via crafted syscall buffers. arch_buffer_validate() rounds a buffer extent without safely handling 32-bit addition overflow, so a wrapped range skips every MPU-region probe and retains its access-permitted return value. Exploitation requires an Xtensa build with CONFIG_XTENSA_MPU and CONFIG_USERSPACE plus an unprivileged user thread; successful reads disclose protected memory, while writes corrupt it and enable privilege escalation or a kernel crash.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in Zephyr RTOS 3.7.0 through 4.4.0 allows local users to read or write protected memory via crafted syscall buffers. arch_buffer_validate() rounds a buffer extent without safely handling 32-bit addition overflow, so a wrapped range skips every MPU-region probe and retains its access-permitted return value. Exploitation requires an Xtensa build with CONFIG_XTENSA_MPU and CONFIG_USERSPACE plus an unprivileged user thread; successful reads disclose protected memory, while writes corrupt it and enable privilege escalation or a kernel crash.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-10669
- Published
- Jul 14, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 14, 2026
- Vendor
- Zephyr Project
- Product
- Zephyr RTOS
- Classifications
- CWE-787, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Jul 14, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Jul 14, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=3.7.0 <4.5.0
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