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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…
Low2.1EPSS 0.86%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.86% · top 42% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 2070 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- MDKSA-2000:077 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- apc-apcupsd-dos(5654) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20001206 apcupsd 3.7.2 Denial of Service (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .