VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2002-1509
CVSS score3.6 LOW
EPSS probability0.37%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2003-03-03
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
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.