CVE-2003-0202

CVE-2003-0202 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the "halstead" and "gather_stats" scripts within brian_renaud metrics 1.0. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack on temporary files, allowing them to overwrite arbitrary files on the system. With a CVSS score of 4.6 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P), this vulnerability requires local access and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.