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CVE-2025-55279

This vulnerability exists in ZKTeco WL20 due to hard-coded private key stored in plaintext within the device firmware.

MEDIUM 6.9EPSS 0.17%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.17%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

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
6.9 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:P/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/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/M
EPSS
0.17% probability · 7th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-798
Source
vdisclose@cert-in.org.in

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.