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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1174

Original release date:05/28/2006
Last revised:03/10/2011
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

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.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:3.7 (LOW) (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 1.9
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Locally exploitable
Access Complexity: High
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (09/06/2007)
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.

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#312692
Name: VU#312692
Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312692
External Source: BID
Name: 18111
Type: Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18111
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20370
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20370
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1357
Hyperlink:https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1357
External Source: XF
Name: shadow-utils-useradd-file-permission(26958)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/26958
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-3229
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-2006
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2006
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1018221
Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018221
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070511 rPSA-2007-0096-1 shadow
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/468336/100/0/threaded
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0431
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0431.html
External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2007:0276
Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0276.html
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2006:090
Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:090
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200606-02
Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm
Hyperlink:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 27706
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/27706
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26909
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/26909
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25896
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25896
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25894
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25894
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25629
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25629
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25267
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25267
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25098
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/25098
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 20506
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20506
External Source: OVAL
Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10807
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10807
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20070920 VMSA-2007-0006 Critical security updates for all supported versions of VMware ESX Server, VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware ACE, and VMware Player
Hyperlink:http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/NEWS?rev=1.109
Hyperlink:http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/NEWS?rev=1.109
External Source: SGI
Name: 20070602-01-P
Hyperlink:ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10807
Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5
Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10807

Vulnerable software and versions

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spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.0
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.2
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.4
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.4.1
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.5
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.6
spacerspacerNav control image* cpe:/a:debian:shadow-utils:4.0.7 and previous versions
* Denotes Vulnerable Software
* Changes related to vulnerability configurations

Technical Details

Vulnerability Type (View All)
  • Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control (CWE-264)
CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-1174