SUSE SLES15 Security Update : polkit (SUSE-SU-2025:02528-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 242866

Synopsis

The remote SUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02528-1 advisory.

- CVE-2025-7519: Fixed a XML policy file with a large number of nested elements that may lead to out-of- bounds write. (bsc#1246472)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected libpolkit0, polkit, polkit-devel and / or typelib-1_0-Polkit-1_0 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1246472

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7519

https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-updates/2025-July/040934.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 242866

File Name: suse_SU-2025-02528-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/26/2025

Updated: 7/26/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-7519

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:libpolkit0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:typelib-1_0-polkit-1_0, p-cpe:/a:novell:suse_linux:polkit-devel, cpe:/o:novell:suse_linux:15

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-7519

SuSE: SUSE-SU-2025:02528-1