Vulnerability in Apc Apcupsd

CVE-2001-0040

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.

EPSS: 0.009 (54.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Apc Apcupsd — versions 3.7.2
N/a — versions n/a

References

cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_MANDRAKE)
cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)