CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2176

2.1 LOW Published 2011-09-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2011-09-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-287

Description

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the auth_admin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Affected configurations

• gnome networkmanager (<= 0.8.4) • gnome networkmanager 0.2.0 • gnome networkmanager 0.3.0 • gnome networkmanager 0.3.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.4.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.5.0 • gnome networkmanager 0.5.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.6.0 • gnome networkmanager 0.6.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.6.2 • gnome networkmanager 0.6.6 • gnome networkmanager 0.7.0 • gnome networkmanager 0.7.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.7.2 • gnome networkmanager 0.8.1 • gnome networkmanager 0.8.2

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-287 Improper Authentication weakness

References