Zephyr Project up to 4.4.1 Logging Syscall Verifier subsys/logging/log_msg.c z_vrfy_z_log_msg_static_create source/desc/package/data privileges management

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Zephyr Project Zephyr up to 4.4.1. Affected is the function z_vrfy_z_log_msg_static_create of the file subsys/logging/log_msg.c of the component Logging Syscall Verifier. Executing a manipulation of the argument source/desc/package/data can lead to privileges management. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2026-12364. The attack needs to be launched locally. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Zephyr Project Zephyr up to 4.4.1. This vulnerability affects the function z_vrfy_z_log_msg_static_create of the file subsys/logging/log_msg.c of the component Logging Syscall Verifier. The manipulation of the argument source/desc/package/data with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The user-space system-call verifier z_vrfy_z_log_msg_static_create() in subsys/logging/log_msg.c was a pure pass-through: it forwarded the caller-supplied source, desc, package, and data arguments directly to the kernel-mode implementation z_impl_z_log_msg_static_create() without performing any of the mandatory K_SYSCALL_* checks. Because z_log_msg_static_create() is declared __syscall, under CONFIG_USERSPACE any unprivileged user-mode thread can invoke it directly with fully attacker-controlled arguments. The kernel-mode handler dereferences each of these untrusted values: frontend_runtime_filtering() reads through the source pointer as a struct log_source_dynamic_data, cbprintf_package_copy() reads desc.package_len bytes from the package pointer, and z_log_msg_finalize() performs a memcpy() of desc.data_len bytes from the data pointer. With no verification, a user thread can supply arbitrary kernel addresses and arbitrary lengths, and the kernel will read from them. The impact is a kernel-mode denial of service (the kernel faults dereferencing an attacker-chosen pointer) and, where a log backend output is observable to the attacker, disclosure of arbitrary kernel memory copied into the emitted log message — a confidentiality breach across the user/kernel boundary that the userspace sandbox is meant to enforce. The reads do not corrupt kernel memory, so there is no out-of-bounds write primitive. The fix adds the required validation to the verifier: it bounds desc.package_len against Z_LOG_MSG_MAX_PACKAGE, rejects non-NULL/length mismatches, and applies K_SYSCALL_MEMORY_READ() to package, data, and (when runtime filtering with a frontend is enabled) source, so any out-of-bounds or kernel pointer now raises K_OOPS instead of being honored.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-12364 since 06/16/2026. The exploitation appears to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 4.4.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Project Management Software

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• Zephyr Project

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• Zephyr

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• 4.4.0
• 4.4.1

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