Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-1174

Title: Debian Shadow

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-1174.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date May 28, 2006

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 3.7 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.44%

Vulnerability Summary

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.

Impacted Vendors

debian 1

shadow_project 1

blade-group 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/NEWS?rev=1.109 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20370 http://secunia.com/advisories/20506 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25267 http://secunia.com/advisories/25629 http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 http://secunia.com/advisories/25896 http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312692 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:090 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0276.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0431.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468336/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18111 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018221 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26958 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1357 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10807 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc http://cvs.pld.org.pl/shadow/NEWS?rev=1.109 http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2007-September/065902.html http://secunia.com/advisories/20370 http://secunia.com/advisories/20506 http://secunia.com/advisories/25098 http://secunia.com/advisories/25267 http://secunia.com/advisories/25629 http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 http://secunia.com/advisories/25896 http://secunia.com/advisories/26909 http://secunia.com/advisories/27706 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-249.htm http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-02.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/312692 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:090 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0276.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0431.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/468336/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18111 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018221 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3229 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26958 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1357 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10807

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.7

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-1174 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 28, 2006 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.