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FKIE_CVE-2019-25241

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-12-24 20:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 02:31

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

FaceSentry Access Control System 6.4.8 contains a critical authentication vulnerability with hard-coded SSH credentials for the wwwuser account. Attackers can leverage the insecure sudoers configuration to escalate privileges and gain root access by executing sudo commands without authentication.

References

URL	Tags
disclosure@vulncheck.com	http://www.iwt.com.hk	Product
disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47067	Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
disclosure@vulncheck.com	https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2019-5526.php	Exploit, Third Party Advisory
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2019-5526.php	Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system_firmware	5.7.0
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system	-
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system_firmware	5.7.2
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system	-
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system_firmware	6.4.8
iwt	facesentry_access_control_system	-

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CVE-2019-25241 (GCVE-0-2019-25241)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-24 19:27 – Updated: 2026-07-15 01:23

Title

FaceSentry Access Control System 6.4.8 Remote SSH Root Access

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-12-24 20:04 UTC

CWE

CWE-798 - Use of Hard-coded Credentials

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47067	exploit
http://www.iwt.com.hk	product
https://www.zeroscience.mk/en/vulnerabilities/ZSL…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
iWT Ltd.	FaceSentry Access Control System	Affected: 6.4.8 build 264 Affected: 5.7.2 build 568 Affected: 5.7.0 build 539 cpe:2.3:h:iwt:facesentry_access_control_system:6.4.8_build_264:::::::* cpe:2.3:h:iwt:facesentry_access_control_system:5.7.2_build_568:::::::* cpe:2.3:h:iwt:facesentry_access_control_system:5.7.0_build_539:::::::*

Date Public

2019-05-28 00:00

Credits

LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab

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