CVE-2025-3653
📋 TL;DR
The Petlibro Smart Pet Feeder Platform contains an improper access control vulnerability that allows attackers to manipulate any device by sending arbitrary serial numbers to device control APIs. This enables unauthorized feeding schedule changes, manual feed triggers, camera feed access, and device setting modifications. All users of Petlibro Smart Pet Feeder Platform versions up to 1.7.31 are affected.
💻 Affected Systems
- Petlibro Smart Pet Feeder Platform
📦 What is this software?
Petlibro by Petlibro
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers could starve pets by disabling feeding schedules, overfeed pets causing health issues, access home camera feeds for surveillance, and permanently disable devices.
Likely Case
Attackers will change feeding schedules causing pet distress, trigger unnecessary manual feeds wasting food, and access camera feeds to monitor homes.
If Mitigated
With proper access controls, only authenticated device owners could control their specific devices, preventing unauthorized manipulation.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires only API endpoint knowledge and device serial numbers, which may be guessable or enumerable.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Unknown
Vendor Advisory: None available
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Monitor Petlibro for security updates. 2. Check for platform updates in device/app settings. 3. Apply any available updates immediately.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Network Segmentation
allIsolate Petlibro devices on separate VLAN or network segment to limit attack surface
API Endpoint Blocking
allBlock external access to Petlibro API endpoints at firewall/network level
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Disconnect devices from internet and use local-only functionality if available
- Monitor device logs for unauthorized API calls and feeding schedule changes
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check Petlibro platform/app version. If version is 1.7.31 or lower, device is vulnerable.Check Version:
Check version in Petlibro mobile app settings or device management interfaceVerify Fix Applied:
Verify platform version is above 1.7.31 and test API endpoints require proper authentication.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unauthorized API calls to device control endpoints
- Feeding schedule changes from unknown IPs
- Multiple failed authentication attempts followed by successful device control
Network Indicators:
- External IPs accessing device control APIs
- Unusual patterns of API requests to /api/device/* endpoints
- Requests containing serial number parameters without authentication tokens
SIEM Query:
source_ip NOT IN (trusted_ips) AND (uri_path CONTAINS '/api/device/' OR uri_path CONTAINS '/control/') AND http_method IN ('POST', 'PUT')