CVE-2006-1174

LowCVSS 3.7/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

useradd in shadow-utils before 4.0.3, and possibly other versions before 4.0.8, does not provide a required argument to the open function when creating a new user mailbox, which causes the mailbox to be created with unpredictable permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the mailbox.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 3.7/10AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 28, 2006
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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