What is CVE-2022-42953?

CVE-2022-42953 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zkteco Zem500, classified under Direct Request (Forced Browsing). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-12-25.

How severe is CVE-2022-42953?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Zkteco Zem500

CVE-2022-42953

Certain ZKTeco products (ZEM500-510-560-760, ZEM600-800, ZEM720, ZMM) allow access to sensitive information via direct requests for the form/DataApp?style=1 and form/DataApp?style=0 URLs. The affected versions may be before 8.88 (ZEM500-510-560-760, ZEM600-800, ZEM720) and 15.00 (ZMM200-220-210). The fixed versions are firmware version 8.88 (ZEM500-510-560-760, ZEM600-800, ZEM720) and firmware version 15.00 (ZMM200-220-210).

Published 2022-12-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.048 (91.7th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 92nd percentile — 91.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.048 · newest: 0.048 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-425 — Direct Request (Forced Browsing)

References

www.redteam-pentesting.de/en/advisories/-advisories-publicised-vulnerability-an… (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2022/Oct/23 (Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-42953?: CVE-2022-42953 is a high-severity vulnerability in Zkteco Zem500, classified under Direct Request (Forced Browsing). CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2022-12-25.
How severe is CVE-2022-42953?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.