What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1509

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.6 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

• RedHat Linux: 7.2, 7.3, 8.0

References

• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418
• 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
• http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=75418
• 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

Get alerted when CVE-2002-1509 or the next vulnerability affects your stack