CVE-2002-1509 in Linux

Summary

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.

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• Disclosure: 03/03/2003
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-20152
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-269 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.1
• EPSS: 0.00075
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2002-1509
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2002-1509
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2002-1509/