CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0040

2.1 LOW Published 2001-02-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-02-16
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

APC UPS daemon, apcupsd, saves its process ID in a world-writable file, which allows local users to kill an arbitrary process by specifying the target process ID in the apcupsd.pid file.

Affected configurations

• apc apcupsd 3.7.2

References