Record summary

CVE-2001-0040 has a selected CVSS score of 2.1; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.

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.

Description source: CVE List

Exploitation context

Available material

Catalogued exploits
1

Proofs of concept

1

Catalogued exploits

ExploitDBAPC UPS 3.7.2 - 'apcupsd' Local Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby the itchNot analyzed1 file
ExploitDB

PoC details

References

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