CVE-2003-0098: Apcupsd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unknown vulnerability in apcupsd before 3.8.6, and 3.10.x before 3.10.5, allows remote attackers to gain root privileges, possibly via format strings in a request to a slave server.

Affected products

• Apcupsd Apcupsd: before 3.8.6 (fixed in 3.8.6); from 3.10.0, before 3.10.5 (fixed in 3.10.5)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 2.2 only; version 3.0 only

Published 2003-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.