CVE-2025-54464 (GCVE-0-2025-54464)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 11:12
Modified
2025-08-13 13:10
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
CWE
  • CWE-312 - Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information
Summary
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.
References
vdisclose@cert-in.org.inhttps://www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServlet?pageid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2025-0172
vdisclose@cert-in.org.inhttps://www.zkteco.com/en/Security_Bulletinsibs/20
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ZKTeco Co WL20 Biometric Attendance System Version: <=ZLM31-FXO1-3.1.8
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