Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 3, 2023· Updated May 27, 2025

CVE-2023-38951

Description

ZKTeco BioTime 8.5.5 through 9.x before 9.0.1 (20240617.19506) allows authenticated attackers to create or overwrite arbitrary files on the server via crafted requests to /base/sftpsetting/ endpoints that abuse a path traversal issue in the Username field and a lack of input sanitization on the SSH Key field. Overwriting specific files may lead to arbitrary code execution as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Affected products

Zkteco/BioTimecpe-rescue

Patches

No patches discovered yet.

Vulnerability mechanics

AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.

References

claroty.com/team82/disclosure-dashboard/cve-2023-38951mitre
github.com/omair2084/biotime-rce-8.5.5/blob/main/biotime_enum.pymitre
krashconsulting.com/fury-of-fingers-biotime-rce/mitre
www.zkteco.com/en/ZKBio_Time/ZKBioTimemitre
www.zkteco.com/en/announcementmitre

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