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CVE-2006-1174

Published: May 28, 2006 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
3.7 LOW
AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-1174
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

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 Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ShadowDebian*4.0.7 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.0 (including)4.0.0 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.1 (including)4.0.1 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.2 (including)4.0.2 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.4 (including)4.0.4 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.4.1 (including)4.0.4.1 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.5 (including)4.0.5 (including)
ShadowDebian4.0.6 (including)4.0.6 (including)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3RedHatshadow-utils-2:4.0.3-29.RHEL3*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4RedHatshadow-utils-2:4.0.3-61.RHEL4*

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