CVE-2025-7519 Information

Jul 15, 2025 cve

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

HIGH

User Interaction Required

HIGH

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.7

CNNVD-202507-1880 (Published: 2025-07-14)

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