CVE-2025-55279
Hard-coded Private Key Vulnerability in ZKTeco WL20
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 6.9EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
13 Aug 2025Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
This vulnerability exists in ZKTeco WL20 due to hard-coded private key stored in plaintext within the device firmware. An attacker with physical access could exploit this vulnerability by extracting the firmware and analyzing the binary data to retrieve private key stored in the firmware of the targeted device.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow the attacker to perform unauthorized decryption of sensitive data and Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks on the targeted device.
CVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
ZKTeco Co · WL20 Biometric Attendance SystemWant to know if your infrastructure is exposed to this?
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