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2 vulnerabilities found for ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional by ZKTeco Inc.

CVE-2016-20025 (GCVE-0-2016-20025)

Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2026-03-15 13:35 – Updated: 2026-03-16 14:20
VLAI?
Title
ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional 3.5.3 Privilege Escalation via Insecure Permissions
Summary
ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional 3.5.3 contains an insecure file permissions vulnerability that allows authenticated users to escalate privileges by modifying executable files. Attackers can leverage the Modify permission granted to the Authenticated Users group to replace executable binaries with malicious code for privilege escalation.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ZKTeco Inc. ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional Affected: 3.5.3 (Build 0005)
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public ?
2016-08-30 00:00
Credits
LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab
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CVE-2016-20025 (GCVE-0-2016-20025)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-15 13:35 – Updated: 2026-03-16 14:20
VLAI?
Title
ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional 3.5.3 Privilege Escalation via Insecure Permissions
Summary
ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional 3.5.3 contains an insecure file permissions vulnerability that allows authenticated users to escalate privileges by modifying executable files. Attackers can leverage the Modify permission granted to the Authenticated Users group to replace executable binaries with malicious code for privilege escalation.
Severity ?
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Assigner
References
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Vendor Product Version
ZKTeco Inc. ZKTeco ZKAccess Professional Affected: 3.5.3 (Build 0005)
Create a notification for this product.
Date Public ?
2016-08-30 00:00
Credits
LiquidWorm as Gjoko Krstic of Zero Science Lab
Show details on NVD website
To clipboard 

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