CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2020-6652 — Eaton Intelligent Power Manager security vulnerability

High CVSS 7.8

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.

Severity
High
CVSS
7.8 (3.1)
Published
2020-05-07
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-266, CWE-269

Affected products

  • eaton / intelligent_power_manager

Matched remediation archetype

Privilege escalation and unsafe privilege management

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Check exposure

  • Map service accounts, operating-system identities, roles, capabilities, impersonation, set-user transitions, and administrative helper paths.
  • Determine whether untrusted users or lower-privilege processes can reach the affected transition or modify inputs it trusts.
  • Review file, socket, registry, device, job, container, and cloud-role permissions used before and after privilege changes.

Remediate safely

  • Apply the supported fix and redesign privileged operations as a minimal, authenticated, allowlisted interface.
  • Drop privileges before processing untrusted input, verify the drop succeeds, and remove unnecessary roles, capabilities, and write permissions.
  • Validate ownership and permissions at time of use and add explicit lower-to-higher privilege boundary tests.

Authoritative sources

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