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CVE-2001-0040

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2001-02-16 Modified: 2026-06-16

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.

Affected Platforms

Apc Apcupsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References