CVE-2001-0040

Published Feb 16, 2001

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 2.1
Impact score: 2.9
Exploitability score: 3.9
Vector string: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:apc:apcupsd:3.7.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "1D6E7E99-187C-4CAF-A5B7-BD10C39AD878"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References