CVE-2016-20024 identifies an insecure file permissions vulnerability in ZKTeco ZKTime.Net 3.0.1.6, enabling unprivileged users to escalate privileges. Attackers can exploit world-writable permissions on the ZKTimeNet3.0 directory to replace executable files with malicious binaries. This vulnerability carries a Critical CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity, potentially exploitable over a network. Despite its critical severity, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community attention for this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
| ZKTeco Inc. | ZKTeco ZKTime.Net | 3.0.1.1 (160216), 3.0.1.5 (160622), 3.0.1.6CNA affected |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.