CVE-2025-53391

9.3 criticalEPSS 0.2%

Critical (9.3). EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.3 critical

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 6% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2025-06-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

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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