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EulerOS 2.0 SP12 : polkit (EulerOS-SA-2025-2021)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 264414
Synopsis
The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.Description
According to the versions of the polkit packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :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.(CVE-2025-7519)
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS polkit 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 polkit packages.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 264414
File Name: EulerOS_SA-2025-2021.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Family: Huawei Local Security Checks
Published: 9/10/2025
Updated: 9/10/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
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:huawei:euleros:polkit-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:polkit, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp
Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/9/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/14/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-7519
IAVA: 2025-A-0642