CVE-2016-20024
ZKTeco ZKTime.Net 3.0.1.6 contains an insecure file permissions vulnerability that allows unprivileged users to escalate privileges by modifying executable files. Attackers can exploit world-writable permissions on the ZKTimeNet3.0 directory and its contents to replace executable files with malicious binaries for privilege escalation.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.8
- CVSS vector
- 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
- EPSS probability
- 0.73%
- CWE
- CWE-538
- Published
- 2026-03-15
- Last modified
- 2026-07-28
Affected products
- ZKTeco Inc. ZKTeco ZKTime.Net
- ZKTeco Inc. ZKTeco ZKTime.Net
- ZKTeco Inc. ZKTeco ZKTime.Net
Weakness type
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