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CVE-2025-53391

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-06-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

The Debian zuluPolkit/CMakeLists.txt file for zuluCrypt through the zulucrypt_6.2.0-1 package has insecure PolicyKit allow_any/allow_inactive/allow_active settings that allow a local user to escalate their privileges to root.

Affected products

• Debian zulucrypt: from zulucrypt_5.5.0-1 through zulucrypt_6.2.0-1

References

• https://bugs.debian.org/1108288
• https://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/z/zulucrypt/zulucrypt_6.2.0-1.dsc
• https://salsa.debian.org/debian/zulucrypt/-/blob/9d661c9f384c4d889d3387944e14ac70cfb9684b/debian/patches/fix_zulupolkit_policy.patch
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1108288

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