APC Security Advisory – Denial of Service Vulnerability with PowerChute Business Edition

Information regarding the APC Security Advisory – Denial of Service Vulnerability with 
PowerChute

APC Security Advisory – Denial of Service Vulnerability with PowerChute Business Edition

Problem Summary
A non-privileged user could cause a denial of service attack on
PowerChute Business Edition servers and agents, preventing authorized
users from accessing them through the PowerChute Business Edition
console (see “Affected Products” to find out if your version of
software is affected).

Severity Level
Important

Affected Products
All versions of PowerChute Business Edition between 6.0 and 7.0.1
(inclusive) are affected. See “Recommendations and workarounds” for
more details on rectifying the problem.

Mitigating Factors
This vulnerability affects the accessibility of PowerChute Business
Edition servers and agents, but does not affect the software’s
primary function of gracefully shutting down in the event of a power
related event.

Recommendations and workarounds
Customers should upgrade to version 7.0.2 of PowerChute Business
Edition or patch their existing version of software. Both the full
release and patch can be downloaded directly from APC’s website at
http://www.apc.com/tools/download/index.cfm

Exploitation and Public Announcements
APC is not aware of any malicious use of the vulnerability described
in this advisory. The discovery and documentation of this
vulnerability was conducted by the Qualys Security Research Team.
For more information about the Qualys Security Research Team, visit
their website at http://www.qualys.com.

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Distribution
This bulletin and any future updates will be posted to APC's web
site.

Revisions
Revision 1.0
Initial Public Release

Copyright
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