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FKIE_CVE-2021-23281

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-04-13 19:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:38

Severity

10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
10.0 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) prior to 1.69 is vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. IPM software does not sanitize the date provided via coverterCheckList action in meta_driver_srv.js class. Attackers can send a specially crafted packet to make IPM connect to rouge SNMP server and execute attacker-controlled code.

References

	URL	Tags
	CybersecurityCOE@eaton.com	https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/security-bulletins/eaton-intelligent-power-manager-ipm-vulnerability-advisory.pdf	Vendor Advisory
	af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/security-bulletins/eaton-intelligent-power-manager-ipm-vulnerability-advisory.pdf	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	eaton	intelligent_power_manager	*

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CVE-2021-23281 (GCVE-0-2021-23281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-13 18:03 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:41

Title

Remote Code execution

Summary

Severity

10 (Critical)


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

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

Eaton mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/n…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Eaton	Intelligent Power manager (IPM)	Affected: unspecified , < 1.69 (custom)

Date Public

2021-04-01 00:00

Credits

Amir Preminger from Claroty research

Show details on NVD website

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