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CVE-2002-1509 Detail

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.

Source:  MITRE
Description Last Modified:  03/03/2003

Impact

CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 3.6 LOW
Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N) (V2 legend)
Impact Subscore: 4.9
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9

Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (AU): None
Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): Partial
Availability (A): None
Additional Information:
Allows unauthorized disclosure of information
Allows unauthorized modification

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Hyperlink Resource
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418 Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:026
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-057.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-058.html

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2002-1509
NVD Published Date:
03/03/2003
NVD Last Modified:
09/10/2008