CVE-2024-13966: medium-severity vulnerability in ZKTeco BioTime
ZKTeco BioTime default password
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.9epss 0.4%
ZKTeco BioTime allows unauthenticated attackers to enumerate usernames and log in as any user with a password unchanged from the default value '123456'. Users should change their passwords (located under the Attendance Settings tab as "Self-Password").
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
ZKTeco · BioTimeRelated CVEs — ZKTeco BioTime
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2024-6523MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime system-group-add cross site scriptingEPSS 0.5%CVE-2025-15128MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime Endpoint safe_setting credentials storageEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-108798MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime hard-coded keyEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-108797MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime Employee REST API employees authorizationEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-108795MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime System Settings API systemSettings access controlEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-108796MEDIUMZKTeco BioTime Biometric Data Endpoint finger_data authorizationEPSS 0.2%
References
https://krashconsulting.com/fury-of-fingers-biotime-rce/https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cisagov/CSAF/develop/csaf_files/IT/white/2025/va-25-148-01.jsonhttps://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-13966https://www.zkteco.com/en/Security_Bulletinsibs/18https://zkteco-store.ru/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/ZKBio-CVSecurity-6.0.0-User-Manual_EN-v1.0_20230616.pdf