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CVE-2002-1509

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
03/03/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.60 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
3.60
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.2:*:ia64:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:7.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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