CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-70340

Low risk· EPSS 5%
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.16%

5th percentile - higher than 5% of all known CVEs

Summary

A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) 4.21 and below, within the Alarms comments functionality. An authenticated customer user can manipulate the respective API request parameters to create or modify system-generated alarm comments. This allows unauthorized impersonation of system messages and modification of trusted system-owned data, resulting in vertical privilege escalation and potential integrity violations.

Risk Assessment

An authenticated user can escalate privileges and manipulate trusted system data, potentially leading to integrity and trust violations.

Recommendation

Update ThingsBoard PE to a patched version and implement proper access control on the API for alarm comments functionality.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) 4.21 and below, within the Alarms comments functionality. An authenticated customer user can manipulate the respective API request parameters to create or modify system-generated alarm comments. This allows unauthorized impersonation of system messages and modification of trusted system-owned data, resulting in vertical privilege escalation and potential integrity violations.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS