Detections
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CVE-2025-7519
medium
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.
References
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/pull/570
https://github.com/polkit-org/polkit/commit/107d3801361b9f9084f78710178e683391f1d245