{"id":"CVE-2018-9281","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-9281","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T20:49:10.704Z","title":"The administration panel is vulnerable to a CSRF attack on the change-password functionality.","description":"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.","published":"2018-10-24T21:29:02.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T02:06:21.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-79","CWE-352"],"affected":["eaton/9px ups firmware"],"epss":{"score":0.00435,"percentile":0.3757,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.43%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/10/eaton-ups-9px-8000-sp-multiple-vulnerabilities/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.bishopfox.com/news/2018/10/eaton-ups-9px-8000-sp-multiple-vulnerabilities/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-9281","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}