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CVE-2023-38950

High CVSS 7.5 Known exploited

Published 2023-08-03 · last changed 2026-07-09 · added to CISA KEV 2025-05-19

This one is being exploited in the wild.

CISA added CVE-2023-38950 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2025-05-19. Federal agencies are required to remediate it on a deadline. If you have affected machines, this is the class of finding that moves ahead of the rest of the queue.

The fix

We hold no Microsoft remediation data for CVE-2023-38950, which normally means it is not a Windows CVE. For non-Microsoft software the fix is the vendor's own updated release, and the affected versions are listed below.

What it is

A path traversal vulnerability in the iclock API of ZKTeco BioTime v8.5.5 allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via supplying a crafted payload. This vulnerability was fixed in version 9.0.120240617.19506 of ZKBioTime.

Sources

CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N