Responsible disclosure: Access control vulnerability discovered in the ThingsBoard IoT platform
On December 2022, a security researcher from the Outpost24 Ghost Labs team discovered a vulnerability on the ThingsBoard IoT platform, where a normal user’s privileges can be escalated, by doing a simple post with an additional header, and exploiting the associated flaws, to take control over the entire platform and related accounts. Upon reporting of the vulnerability to the vendor, it was quickly resolved.