CVE-2002-1509: Red Hat Linux

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Red Hat Linux: version 7.2 only; version 7.3 only; version 8.0 only

Published 2003-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.