APC's vulnerability profile centers on power management and infrastructure monitoring products including PowerChute, network management cards, and switched rack PDUs that are widely deployed in data centers and enterprise facilities. The recurring exposure involves input-handling and authentication weaknesses—cross-site scripting, CSRF, improper authentication, and input validation flaws—that are characteristic of management interfaces, and vulnerabilities in this vendor's products tend toward public exploit availability. Current severity and exploitation counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Apc over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (14 CVEs).
14 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2004-0311HIGH American Power Conversion (APC) Web/SNMP Management SmartSlot Card 3.0 through 3.0.3 and 3.21 are shipped with a default password of TENmanUFactOryPOWER, which allows remote attack | Nov 23, 2004 | 10.0 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2020-7526HIGH Improper Input Validation vulnerability exists in PowerChute Business Edition (software V9.0.x and earlier) which could cause remote code execution when a script is executed during | Aug 31, 2020 | 8.8 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2001-0564MEDIUM APC Web/SNMP Management Card prior to Firmware 310 only supports one telnet connection, which allows a remote attacker to create a denial of service via repeated failed logon attem | Aug 22, 2001 | 5.0 | 23 | NO | YES |
CVE-2000-1242HIGH The HTTP service in American Power Conversion (APC) PowerChute uses a default username and password, which allows remote attackers to gain system access. | Dec 31, 2000 | 9.0 | 22 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-1798MEDIUM Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the Network Management Card (NMC) on American Power Conversion (APC) Switched Rack PDU (aka Rack Mount Power Distribution) de | Dec 28, 2009 | 4.3 | 21 | NO | YES |
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 | Feb 16, 2001 | 2.1 | 21 | NO | YES |
CVE-2007-6226HIGH The American Power Conversion (APC) AP7932 0u 30amp Switched Rack Power Distribution Unit (PDU), with rpdu 3.5.5 and aos 3.5.6, allows remote attackers to bypass authentication and | Dec 4, 2007 | 7.1 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2003-0099HIGH Multiple buffer overflows in apcupsd before 3.8.6, and 3.10.x before 3.10.5, may allow attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code, related to usage of the vsp | Mar 3, 2003 | 7.2 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2009-1797MEDIUM Multiple cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities on the Network Management Card (NMC) on American Power Conversion (APC) Switched Rack PDU (aka Rack Mount Power Distribut | Dec 28, 2009 | 6.8 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2011-4263MEDIUM Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Schneider Electric PowerChute Business Edition before 8.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified | Dec 7, 2011 | 4.3 | 16 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (14 CVEs).
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