CVE-2003-0877

CVE-2003-0877 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X prior to version 10.3. When core files are enabled, a local attacker can exploit a symlink attack on predictably named core files in the /cores directory to overwrite arbitrary files and read core file contents. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.6, indicating a low severity with local access required and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.