CVE-2020-6652
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2020-05-07
- WeaknessCWE-266 · CWE-269
Am I affected?
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Description
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.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2020-05-0716:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2020-6652?format=csv
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Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.67 | ≤ 1.67 | no fix published | NVD |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
Eaton Intelligent Power Manager
Intelligent Power Manager: v1.67 and prior
Fix
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-133-01 · 1 productEaton has released Intelligent Power Manager v1.68 to address the reported vulnerabilities.
- Vendor fix CISA ICSA-20-133-01 · 1 productTo prevent the exploitation of the issues and safeguard the software from malicious entities, Eaton recommends blocking Ports 4679 and 4680 at the enterprise network or home network where Intelligent Power Manager software is installed and used.
- Mitigation from the vendor CISA ICSA-20-133-01 · 1 productFor additional information please see the Eaton Vulnerability Advisory.
Advisories and patches
- www.eaton.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2020-05-07
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-17
- NVD status
- Modified
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