🛡️ CVE-2023-45303 — thingsboard

🟠 CVSS 8.4 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-74 NVD
8.4
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

ThingsBoard Server-Side Template Injection

ThingsBoard before 3.5 allows Server-Side Template Injection if users are allowed to modify an email template, because Apache FreeMarker supports freemarker.template.utility.Execute for content sent to the /api/admin/settings endpoint.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

CVE-2023-45303 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • org.thingsboard:thingsboard (fixed in 3.5)
  • thingsboard (fixed in 3.5)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 October 2023 and last revised on 8 November 2023. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
freemarker.apache.org (Web)
herolab.usd.de (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.4
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-74
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-10-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2023-11-08
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
org.thingsboard:thingsboard — 3.5
thingsboard — 3.5

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