CVE-2022-38801 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

In Zkteco BioTime < 8.5.3 Build:20200816.447, an employee can hijack an administrator session and cookies using blind cross-site scripting.

Published: 2022-11-30

Score: 5.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:zkteco:biotime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-41361	In Zkteco BioTime < 8.5.3 Build:20200816.447, an employee can hijack an administrator session and cookies using blind cross-site scripting.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00213.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://gist.github.com/hamoshwani/5ac860dd6757440174f446c62b24653f
https://www.zkteco.com/

History

Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Zkteco Biotime

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-11-30T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-24T19:53:42.606Z

Reserved: 2022-08-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-38801

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T11:02:14.546Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-30T14:15:10.787

Modified: 2025-04-24T20:15:23.513

Link: CVE-2022-38801

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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