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CVE-2001-0040
published 2001-02-16

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…

PriorityP414low2.1CVSS 2.0
AVLACLAuNCNINAP
EXPLOIT
EPSS
0.86%
53.9th percentile
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

1 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
apcapcupsd——
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