High severity8.4NVD Advisory· Published Jun 16, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-7884
CVE-2017-7884
Description
In Adam Kropelin adk0212 APC UPS Daemon through 3.14.14, the default installation of APCUPSD allows a local authenticated, but unprivileged, user to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges by replacing the service executable apcupsd.exe with a malicious executable that will run with SYSTEM privileges at startup. This occurs because of "RW NT AUTHORITY\Authenticated Users" permissions for %SYSTEMDRIVE%\apcupsd\bin\apcupsd.exe.
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References
3- seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Jun/20nvdMailing ListThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/99092nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1038707nvd
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