CVE-2023-38950 is a critical path traversal vulnerability affecting ZKTeco BioTime v8.5.5, allowing unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files through a crafted payload to the iclock API. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network without user interaction, leading to complete confidentiality compromise. Notably, it is listed in CISA's KEV catalog, indicating active exploitation, and has garnered significant community attention with available Nuclei templates for detection. Organizations using affected versions should upgrade to ZKBioTime v9.0.120240617.19506 or later immediately.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 9.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:zkteco:biotime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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