National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2011-4945
Original release date:10/01/2012
Last revised:10/24/2012
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to "wheel" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
3.4
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides administrator access, Allows complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1
External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120327 Re: CVE Request: PolicyKit change allows users in
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20120327 CVE Request: PolicyKit change allows users in
External Source: MLIST
Name: [polkit-devel] 20111206 polkit 0.103
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9
Technical Details
- Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)