CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4945
6.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.
Affected configurations
• michael biebl policykit 0.103
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 cgit.freedesktop.org
- http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch patch-tracker.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1 launchpad.net
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 cgit.freedesktop.org
- http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch patch-tracker.debian.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 www.openwall.com
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513 bugs.gentoo.org
- https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1 launchpad.net