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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- APC UPS 3.7.2 - 'apcupsd' Local Denial of Service EDB-251 · dos · Jan 15, 2001 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 2070 vdb-entry
- MDKSA-2000:077 vendor-advisory
- apc-apcupsd-dos(5654) vdb-entry
- 20001206 apcupsd 3.7.2 Denial of Service mailing-list