CVE-2021-23280: Eaton Intelligent Power Manager

Critical severity, CVSS 9.9. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) prior to 1.69 is vulnerable to authenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability. IPM’s maps_srv.js allows an attacker to upload a malicious NodeJS file using uploadBackgroud action. An attacker can upload a malicious code or execute any command using a specially crafted packet to exploit the vulnerability.

Affected products

• Eaton Intelligent Power Manager: before 1.69 (fixed in 1.69)
• Eaton Intelligent Power Manager Virtual Appliance: before 1.69 (fixed in 1.69)
• Eaton Intelligent Power Protector: before 1.68 (fixed in 1.68)

Published 2021-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.