{"id":"CVE-2011-4945","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2011-4945","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T22:04:12.601Z","title":"PolicyKit 0.103 sets the AdminIdentities to \"wheel\" by default, which allows local users in the wheel group to gain root privileges without authentication.","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.","published":"2012-10-01T23:55:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:35:40.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":["CWE-264"],"affected":["michael biebl/policykit"],"epss":{"score":0.00352,"percentile":0.28574,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.35%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/48817","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"http://cgit.freedesktop.org/PolicyKit/commit/?id=763faf434b445c20ae9529100d3ef5290976d0c9","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://patch-tracker.debian.org/patch/series/view/policykit-1/0.104-2/05_revert-admin-identities-unix-group-wheel.patch","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/48817","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201204-06.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.mail-archive.com/polkit-devel%40lists.freedesktop.org/msg00327.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/03/28/2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401513","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/policykit-1/0.103-1","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-4945","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}