CVE-2001-0040: Apc Apcupsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Apc Apcupsd: version 3.7.2 only

Published 2001-02-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.