Security Advisory

CVE-2025-7519

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-07-14 13:35:21
Last updated 2026-02-26 17:50:41
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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 its required to place the malicious policy file properly.