CVE-2003-0878

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2003-11-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

slpd daemon in Mac OS X before 10.3 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary file, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0875.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.3

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798
http://lists.apple.com/mhonarc/security-announce/msg00038.html

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