Vulnerability in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) (CVE-2025-70340)
Summary
Vulnerability in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) (CVE-2025-70340). Data can be tampered with by attackers.
Original description
The description as published by the 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.
Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-70340 has been found in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE).
Data can be tampered with by attackers. CVSS score: 6.5/10.
What to do: apply the vendor's official patched release.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) CVE-2025-70340" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-70340 (ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE)) — CWE-284 / CVSS v3 6.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / no user interaction
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-284) exists in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE).
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE).
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.5/10). Data can be tampered with by attackers.
Update to the patched release per vendor advisory.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
References
- web cve@mitre.org
- web cve@mitre.org
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web thingsboard.io
- web github.com