CVE-2025-7519

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  2. Vulnerabilities (CVE)
  3. 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.
CVSS

No CVSS.

References
Link Resource
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675 Issue Tracking
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245 Patch
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570 Patch
Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
History

11 Aug 2025, 19:20

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPE cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Redhat
Redhat openshift Container Platform
Redhat enterprise Linux
References () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519 - () https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519 - Vendor Advisory
References () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675 - () https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675 - Issue Tracking
References () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570 - () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570 - Patch
References () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245 - () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245 - Patch

25 Jul 2025, 18:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
  • () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570 -
  • () https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245 -
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : 6.7 		v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
CWE CWE-787

14 Jul 2025, 14:15

Type Values Removed Values Added
New CVE
Information

Published : 2025-07-14 14:15

Updated : 2025-08-11 19:20

NVD link : CVE-2025-7519

Mitre link : CVE-2025-7519

JSON object : View

Products Affected

redhat

  • enterprise_linux
  • openshift_container_platform
CWE

No CWE.