CVE-2003-0877 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0877?

CVE-2003-0877 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 30 Oct 2003. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0877?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0877?

No fix has been published for CVE-2003-0877 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2003-0877 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2003-0877 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-573h-jq7r-56mg.