CVSS 3.1
10.0 criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-23279
Critical (10.0) in eaton. EPSS 27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) prior to 1.69 is vulnerable to unauthenticated arbitrary file delete vulnerability induced due to improper input validation in meta_driver_srv.js class with saveDriverData action using invalidated driverID. An attacker can send specially crafted packets to delete the files on the system where IPM software is installed.
Severity
- EPSS
- 27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- eaton:intelligent_power_manager
- eaton:intelligent_power_manager_virtual_appliance
- eaton:intelligent_power_protector
References
- https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/security-bulletins/eaton-intelligent-power-manager-ipm-vulnerability-advisory.pdf
- https://www.eaton.com/content/dam/eaton/company/news-insights/cybersecurity/security-bulletins/eaton-intelligent-power-manager-ipm-vulnerability-advisory.pdf