CVE-2011-2176
LOW · CVSS 2.1EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 2.1 (v2.0)
- Severity
- LOW
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-287
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (26th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2011-2168)
- Published
- September 2, 2011
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2011-2168 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
- gnome / networkmanager
References
- http://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/plain/NEWS?h=NM_0_8
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2011-August/063665.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44858
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1025711
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2011:171
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0930.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=709662
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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