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SMA: Sunny Portal demo system privilege escalation

VDE-2025-010
Last update
05/14/2025 15:00
Published at
05/13/2025 13:00
Vendor(s)
SMA Solar Technology AG
External ID
VDE-2025-010
CSAF Document

Summary

A security researcher discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the demo system area of the SMA Classic Portal, www.sunnyportal.com.
Only systems of other users have been affected who unintendedly and illicitly had added their non-demo systems to the demo system area.

Impact

An unauthenticated attacker could get access to systems within the demo-system area. Limited to the demo-systems provided there the attacker could change parameters and configuration data. No indicators of compromise have been identified.

Affected Product(s)

Model no. Product name Affected versions
www.sunnyportal.com <20.02.2025 www.sunnyportal.com <20.02.2025

Vulnerabilities

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Published
09/22/2025 14:58
Weakness
Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres (CWE-669)
Summary

An unauthenticated remote attacker could use a demo account of the portal to hijack devices that were created in that account by mistake.

References

Remediation

No action required. The vulnerability was closed in the portal backend on Feb 20th, 2025. A workaround mitigating the impact was implemented on Jan 20th, 2025 immediately after reporting of the issue.

Revision History

Version Date Summary
1 05/13/2025 13:00 Initial revision.
2 05/14/2025 15:00 Fix: added distribution