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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-22 | Published 2025-08-13 | Updated 2025-08-13 | Assigner CERT-In




HIGH: 7.0CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Problem types

CWE-312: Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

Product status

Default status
unaffected

<=ZLM31-FXO1-3.1.8
affected

Credits

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

References

www.cert-in.org.in/...eid=PUBVLNOTES01&VLCODE=CIVN-2025-0172 third-party-advisory

www.zkteco.com/en/Security_Bulletinsibs/20 vendor-advisory

cve.org (CVE-2025-54464)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-54464)

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