CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-7519

6.7 MEDIUM Published 2025-07-14 Modified 2026-09-01 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-07-14
Last modified
2026-09-01
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.7 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-787

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat openshift container platform 4.0 • redhat enterprise linux 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0 • redhat enterprise linux 10.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References