Vulnerability Details : 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 permissions and possibly allows attackers to read or modify the mailbox.
Published 2006-05-28 23:02:00
Updated 2020-08-11 17:09:48
Source CERT/CC
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Products affected by CVE-2006-1174

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-1174

EPSS FAQ
1.21%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days EPSS Score History
~ 85 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less

CVSS scores for CVE-2006-1174

Base Score Base Severity CVSS Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Score Source First Seen
3.7
 LOW AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
1.9
6.4
 NIST

CWE ids for CVE-2006-1174

  • Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Vendor statements for CVE-2006-1174

  • Red Hat 2007-09-06
    Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bugs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=193053 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229194 The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this issue as having low security impact, a future update may address this flaw. More information regarding issue severity can be found here: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/ The risks associated with fixing this bug are greater than the low severity security risk. We therefore currently have no plans to fix this flaw in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 which is in maintenance mode.

References for CVE-2006-1174

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