Red Teaming Telemetry Systems
Summary
Telemetry (data collected about how users interact with software) is often used by companies to make business decisions, but telemetry pipelines (the systems that collect and process this data) can be vulnerable to attacks. A red team security test demonstrated this by spoofing telemetry requests to falsely show a Commodore 64 as the most popular operating system, which could mislead companies into making poor decisions based on fake usage data.
Solution / Mitigation
The source mentions that internal red teams should run security assessments of telemetry pipelines. According to the text, this ensures that 'pipelines are assessed and proper sanitization, sanity checks, input validation for telemetry data is in place.' However, no specific technical fix, patch version, or concrete implementation details are provided.
Classification
Related Issues
CVE-2024-37052: Deserialization of untrusted data can occur in versions of the MLflow platform running version 1.1.0 or newer, enabling
CVE-2025-45150: Insecure permissions in LangChain-ChatGLM-Webui commit ef829 allows attackers to arbitrarily view and download sensitive
Original source: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2020/attacking-telemetry-and-machine-learning/
First tracked: February 12, 2026 at 02:20 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 72%