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CVE-2002-1509

LOW CVSS: 3.6 Published: 2003-03-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Redhat Linux

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References