Eaton's vulnerability footprint centers on power management, uninterruptible power supply (UPS), and electrical monitoring software deployed across enterprise data centers and industrial facilities, representing critical infrastructure components. Vulnerabilities affecting the vendor skew toward serious outcomes, with a meaningful share reaching critical severity, and the exposure recurs across products such as Intelligent Power Manager, Intelligent Power Protector, and its electrical monitoring platforms through weakness classes including improper input validation, cross-site scripting, insufficiently protected credentials, uncontrolled search path elements, and code injection. These patterns reflect the combination of web-facing management interfaces, legacy integration requirements, and the high-value, always-on nature of power infrastructure in enterprise networks. Defenders should prioritize remediation for internet-reachable power management appliances and apply updates to products managing critical facility operations. Current exploitation activity and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Eaton over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (55 CVEs).
55 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2018-16158CRITICAL Eaton Power Xpert Meter 4000, 6000, and 8000 devices before 13.4.0.10 have a single SSH private key across different customers' installations and do not properly restrict access to | Aug 30, 2018 | 9.8 | 61 | NO | YES |
CVE-2018-12031CRITICAL Local file inclusion in Eaton Intelligent Power Manager v1.6 allows an attacker to include a file via server/node_upgrade_srv.js directory traversal with the firmware parameter in | Jun 7, 2018 | 9.8 | 48 | NO | YES |
CVE-2021-23279CRITICAL 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 | Apr 13, 2021 | 10.0 | 42 | NO | NO |
CVE-2026-22619CRITICAL Eaton Intelligent Power Protector (IPP) is affected by insecure library loading in its executable, which could lead to arbitrary code execution by an attacker with access to the so | Apr 16, 2026 | 9.9 | 36 | NO | NO |
CVE-2018-8847CRITICAL Eaton 9000X DriveA versions 2.0.29 and prior has a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability, which may allow remote code execution. | Jul 13, 2018 | 9.8 | 33 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-23277CRITICAL Eaton Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) prior to 1.69 is vulnerable to unauthenticated eval injection vulnerability. The software does not neutralize code syntax from users before us | Apr 13, 2021 | 10.0 | 31 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-59887HIGH Improper authentication of library files in the Eaton UPS Companion software installer could lead to arbitrary code execution of an attacker with the access to the software package | Dec 26, 2025 | 8.6 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2022-33859CRITICAL A security vulnerability was discovered in the Eaton Foreseer EPMS software. Foreseer EPMS connects an operation’s vast array of devices to assist in the reduction of energy consum | Oct 28, 2022 | 9.8 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2021-23280CRITICAL 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 N | Apr 13, 2021 | 9.9 | 30 | NO | NO |
CVE-2025-59886HIGH Improper input validation at one of the endpoints of Eaton xComfort ECI's
web interface, could lead into an attacker with network access to the device executing privileged user c | Dec 23, 2025 | 8.8 | 29 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (55 CVEs).
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