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MiracleLinux 4 : polkit-0.96-2.AXS4.1 (AXSA:2011-166:01)

high Nessus Plugin ID 291398

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the AXSA:2011-166:01 advisory.

 PolicyKit is a toolkit for defining and handling authorizations. It is used for allowing unprivileged processes to speak to privileged processes.
 Security issues fixed with this release:
 CVE-2011-1485 No description available at the time of writing, please see the CVE link below.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/1855

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 291398

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2011-166.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/19/2026

Updated: 1/19/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 8.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Temporal Score: 6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1485

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:polkit-docs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:polkit, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:polkit-desktop-policy, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:polkit-devel

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/28/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/1/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-1485