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GHSA-3HXW-4626-CM6F

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-13 12:31 – Updated: 2025-08-13 12:31

Details

This vulnerability exists in ZKTeco WL20 due to storage of admin and user credentials without encryption in the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the firmware and reverse engineer the binary data to access the unencrypted credentials stored in the firmware of targeted device.

Severity ?

7.0 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2025-54464 (GCVE-0-2025-54464)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-13 11:12 – Updated: 2025-08-13 13:10

Summary

Severity ?

7 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CWE

CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Assigner

CERT-In

References

URL

Tags

	https://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=…	third-party-advisory
	https://www.zkteco.com/en/Security_Bulletinsibs/20	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	ZKTeco Co	WL20 Biometric Attendance System	Affected: <=ZLM31-FXO1-3.1.8

Credits

This vulnerability is reported by Shravan Singh from Kavach IoT Security.

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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GHSA-3HXW-4626-CM6F

CVE-2025-54464 (GCVE-0-2025-54464)

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