CVE-2001-0040 — LOW severity vulnerability (APC UPS daemon, apcupsd, saves its process ID in a world-wri)
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.
| CVE ID | CVE-2001-0040 |
|---|---|
| Severity | LOW |
| CVSS score | 2.1 |
| CVSS vector | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| CWE | NVD-CWE-Other |
| Status | Modified |
| Published | 2001-02-16 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-16 |
| 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. |
| Source | NIST National Vulnerability Database |
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