CVE-2011-4945

CVE-2011-4945 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in PolicyKit 0.103, where the default "wheel" group setting for AdminIdentities allows local users within that group to gain root privileges without authentication. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.9, indicating high severity with local access, medium attack complexity, and complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While no active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion has been observed, its potential for local privilege escalation warrants attention.