CVE-2011-4945

Description

From CVE.org

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

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the version of polkit as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 as it did not include the upstream commit 763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9 that introduced this issue.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS scores for open source components depend on vendor-specific factors (e.g. version or build chain). Therefore, Red Hat's score and impact rating can be different from NVD and other vendors. Red Hat remains the authoritative CVE Naming Authority (CNA) source for its products and services (see Red Hat classifications).

The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score6.86.9N/A
Attack VectorLocalLocalN/A
Access ComplexityLowMediumN/A
AuthenticationSingleNoneN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Integrity ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A
Availability ImpactCompleteCompleteN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

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

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