Vulnerability CVE-2011-4945
Published: 2012-10-01   Modified: 2012-10-02

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.

Type:

CWE-264

 (Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls)

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.4/10
6.4/10
3.4/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Michael biebl -> Policykit 

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