Vulnerability Report

CVE-2011-4945

Title: Michael Biebl Policykit

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2011-4945.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Oct 01, 2012

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.04%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2011-4945: PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.

Impacted Vendors

michael_biebl 1

freedesktop 1

redhat 1

Reference Links

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1 http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch http://secunia.com/advisories/48817 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.9

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2011-4945 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 01, 2012 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.