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CVE-2006-1174

LOW CVSS: 3.7 Published: 2006-05-28 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Debian Shadow

Weakness Type

CWE-264

References