🛡️ CVE-2025-7519
🟡 CVSS 6.7 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-787 NVD
6.7
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A flaw was found in polkit. When processing an XML policy with 32 or more nested elements in depth, an out-of-bounds write can be triggered. This issue can lead to a crash or other unexpected behavior, and arbitrary code execution is not discarded. To exploit this flaw, a high-privilege account is needed as it's required to place the malicious policy file properly.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-787
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2025-07-14
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2025-08-11

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
enterprise-linux
openshift-container-platform

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