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CVE-2016-20030

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-20030 describes a critical user enumeration vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity 3.0, allowing unauthenticated attackers to remotely discover valid usernames by submitting partial characters to the login script. This vulnerability has a network-based attack vector and low complexity, enabling high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. While not on the CISA KEV catalog and lacking public exploit modules, community discussions indicate the existence of exploit code, though some posts incorrectly claim remote code execution for this user enumeration flaw.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
ZKTeco Inc.ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity
3.0.1.0_R_230CNA affected

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 4.0

9.3CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
VS Confidentiality
HIGH
VS Integrity
HIGH
VS Availability
HIGH
SS Confidentiality
NONE
SS Integrity
NONE
SS Availability
NONE
Exploit Maturity
NOT_DEFINED
CvssVersion
4.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.56%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
43.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0056 is in the 23rd percentile among its peer group of 36,862 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/116485
packetstormsecurity.com / files/138573
vulncheck.com / advisories/zkteco-zkbiosecurity-user-enumeration-via-authloginaction
zeroscience.mk / en/vulnerabilities/ZSL-2016-5366.php