CVE-2003-0877: Apple Mac OS X

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Mac OS X before 10.3 with core files enabled allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files and read core files via a symlink attack on core files that are created with predictable names in the /cores directory.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.0 only; version 10.0.1 only; version 10.0.2 only; version 10.0.3 only; version 10.0.4 only; version 10.1 only; …

Published 2003-11-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.