Vulnerability in Debian Shadow

CVE-2006-1174

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 permissio…

EPSS: 0.004 (36.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Debian Shadow — versions 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References