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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:06:54.898Z

Reserved: 2001-02-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2001-0040

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2001-02-16T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2001-0040

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