🛡️ CVE-2023-38952 — biotime

🟠 CVSS 7.5 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-552 NVD
7.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Insecure access control in ZKTeco BioTime through 9.0.1 allows authenticated attackers to escalate their privileges due to the fact that session ids are not validated for the type of user accessing the application by default. Privilege restrictions between non-admin and admin users are not enforced and any authenticated user can leverage admin functions without restriction by making direct requests to administrative endpoints.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2023-38952 is classified as CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties. Files intended to stay internal are reachable from outside the application.

Affected software

CVE-2023-38952 is recorded against 1 package.

  • biotime

Timeline and source

Published on 3 August 2023 and last revised on 9 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

claroty.com
github.com
krashconsulting.com
claroty.com
sploitus.com

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-552
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-08-03
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-07-09
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
biotime — —

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