{"id":"CVE-2025-7519","title":"A flaw was found in polkit","summary":"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…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.7,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-787"],"vendor":"redhat","product":"openshift_container_platform","affected":["openshift_container_platform = 4.0","enterprise_linux = 6.0","enterprise_linux = 7.0","enterprise_linux = 8.0","enterprise_linux = 9.0","enterprise_linux = 10.0"],"published":"2025-07-14","updated":"2026-06-25","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7519","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2379675","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570","label":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"tags":["nvd"],"epss":0.00192,"epssPercentile":0.09082,"ingestedAt":"2026-06-29T13:24:34.394Z","slug":"CVE-2025-7519","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected\n\n- `openshift_container_platform = 4.0`\n- `enterprise_linux = 6.0`\n- `enterprise_linux = 7.0`\n- `enterprise_linux = 8.0`\n- `enterprise_linux = 9.0`\n- `enterprise_linux = 10.0`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":37,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":36.9,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}