CVE-2003-0098

critical

Description

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7200

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6828

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:018

http://securitytracker.com/id?1006108

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2003-0094

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_022_apcupsd.html

http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11334.php

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-277

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=137900

http://hsj.shadowpenguin.org/misc/apcupsd_exp.txt

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/apcupsd/apcupsd/src/apcnisd.c.diff?r1=1.5&r2=1.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2003-03-03

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H