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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: certcc

Published: 2006-05-28T23:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:03:28.515Z

Reserved: 2006-03-12T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-1174

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-05-28T23:02:00.000

Modified: 2020-08-11T17:09:47.717

Link: CVE-2006-1174

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2005-02-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2006-1174 - Bugzilla