Incorrect privilege assignment allowing non-admin users to upload config files

published 2020-05-07 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2020-27799

cvss: 7.8; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.4%; EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 29%
public exploits: 0; none known

Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in Eaton's Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) v1.67 & prior allow non-admin users to upload the system configuration files by sending specially crafted requests. This can result in non-admin users manipulating the system configurations via uploading the configurations with incorrect parameters.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

cisa ICSA-20-133-01 updated 2020-05-12 cvss 7.8

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager <= 1.67
affected: vendor fix, mitigation “For additional information please see the Eaton Vulnerability Advisory.” eaton.com

From CISA ICS and IT advisories (CSAF, https://github.com/cisagov/CSAF), a U.S. Government work; changed: reduced to products, statuses and remediations. CISA notification · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 29% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	4.6	AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

Eaton Intelligent Power manager (IPM)

Classification

Weakness

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2020-6652
NVD CVE-2020-6652

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Summary