diff --git a/ee/elastic/docs/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.yml b/ee/elastic/docs/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e8f050e70b80a75af7c96e59c61760930d3b0d7e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ee/elastic/docs/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+---
+name: AddPolicyViolationsFieldToVulnerability
+version: '20251003104903'
+description: Adds policy_violations field to the Vulnerability index.
+group: group::security policies
+milestone: '18.5'
+introduced_by_url: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/202622
+obsolete: false
+marked_obsolete_by_url:
+marked_obsolete_in_milestone:
diff --git a/ee/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.rb b/ee/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c3f69604aaca31fe1707e550a07f3ac04b85d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ee/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+class AddPolicyViolationsFieldToVulnerability < Elastic::Migration
+  include ::Search::Elastic::MigrationUpdateMappingsHelper
+
+  DOCUMENT_TYPE = Vulnerability
+
+  private
+
+  def new_mappings
+    {
+      policy_violations: {
+        type: 'short'
+      }
+    }
+  end
+end
diff --git a/ee/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability.rb b/ee/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability.rb
index 9866d03ffa2590f2ad1f045ddf1f990966599bf5..deb2cd3a23fa48b3c67f5e049760474b2561eee7 100644
--- a/ee/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability.rb
+++ b/ee/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability.rb
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ def base_mappings
               reachability: { type: 'short' }, # enum
               token_status: { type: 'short' }, # enum
               risk_score: { type: 'float' },
+              policy_violations: { type: 'short' }, # enum
               schema_version: { type: 'short' }
             }
           end
diff --git a/ee/spec/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability_spec.rb b/ee/spec/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability_spec.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c19966d535ea4b04dab36dacf11847124024fb5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ee/spec/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability_spec.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+# frozen_string_literal: true
+
+require 'spec_helper'
+require File.expand_path('ee/elastic/migrate/20251003104903_add_policy_violations_field_to_vulnerability.rb')
+
+RSpec.describe AddPolicyViolationsFieldToVulnerability, :elastic, feature_category: :security_policy_management do
+  let(:version) { 20251003104903 }
+
+  include_examples 'migration adds mapping'
+end
diff --git a/ee/spec/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability_spec.rb b/ee/spec/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability_spec.rb
index 8b818c4a430339dae6e4d21582dded4128725709..f4450e705ae77dbfaf830eb218ceeae8e73df236 100644
--- a/ee/spec/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability_spec.rb
+++ b/ee/spec/lib/search/elastic/types/vulnerability_spec.rb
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@
       :reachability,
       :token_status,
       :risk_score,
+      :policy_violations,
       :schema_version]
   end