Eaton UPS 9PX 8000 SP Administration Panel cross-site request forgery

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Eaton UPS 9PX 8000 SP. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Administration Panel. This manipulation causes cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-9281. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Eaton UPS 9PX 8000 SP (affected version not known). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is some unknown functionality of the component Administration Panel. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. As an impact it is known to affect integrity. The summary by CVE is:

An issue was discovered on Eaton UPS 9PX 8000 SP devices. The administration panel is vulnerable to a CSRF attack on the change-password functionality. This vulnerability could be used to force a logged-in administrator to perform a silent password update. The affected forms are also vulnerable to Reflected Cross-Site Scripting vulnerabilities. This flaw could be triggered by driving an administrator logged into the Eaton application to a specially crafted web page. This attack could be done silently.

The bug was discovered 10/19/2018. The weakness was presented 10/24/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at bishopfox.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-9281 since 04/04/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 5 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-125951 and VDB-125952 for similar entries. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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• UPS 9PX 8000 SP

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