CVE-2025-7519

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.7 Medium

Status

Analyzed - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2025-07-14

Last modified

2026-09-01

Weaknesses

CWE-787

Affected products

• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Openshift (Redhat)
• Openshift Container Platform (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675
• https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245
• https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570