CVE-2002-1509

LowCVSS 3.6/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

A patch for shadow-utils 20000902 causes the useradd command to create a mail spool files with read/write privileges of the new user's group (mode 660), which allows other users in the same group to read or modify the new user's incoming email.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.6/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 3, 2003
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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