01 Record
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.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 0.85% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 58.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2001-05-07 04:00Z25 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-08 04:06Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2001-02-01
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- eff2fece1344000db4bcb2eca96f66b992f1a768b7604cc64207b1061860209c
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.securityfocus.com2070http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2070
- www.linux-mandrake.comMDKSA-2000:077http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/MDKSA-2000-077.php3
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comapc-apcupsd-dos(5654)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5654
- archives.neohapsis.com20001206 apcupsd 3.7.2 Denial of Servicehttp://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0066.html