CVE-2025-70340
A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) 4.21 and...
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.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-70340- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-284
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2025-210791
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.
- Record
EUVD-2025-210791- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-433r-pgvp-mq8p
A Broken Access Control vulnerability exists in ThingsBoard Professional Edition (PE) 4.21 and...
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.
- Record
GHSA-433r-pgvp-mq8p- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-284
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
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.
- Record
CVE-2025-70340- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-284
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| first indexed | CVE List, EUVD, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2025-70340 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5), published August 26, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.31%, the 24th percentile. No source names a fixed version.