VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-2176

low
Published 2011-09-02 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.1

Description

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the auth_admin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 0.9.0-1
sid Fixed 0.9.0-1
forky Fixed 0.9.0-1
bullseye Fixed 0.9.0-1
bookworm Fixed 0.9.0-1

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnomenetworkmanager{"endIncluding":"0.8.4"}
gnomenetworkmanager0.2.0
gnomenetworkmanager0.3.0
gnomenetworkmanager0.3.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.4.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.5.0
gnomenetworkmanager0.5.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.6.0
gnomenetworkmanager0.6.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.6.2
gnomenetworkmanager0.6.6
gnomenetworkmanager0.7.0
gnomenetworkmanager0.7.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.7.2
gnomenetworkmanager0.8.1
gnomenetworkmanager0.8.2

References

CWEs

CWE-287

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.