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CWE-1391: Use of Weak Credentials

Class Incomplete

The product uses weak credentials (such as a default key or hard-coded password) that can be calculated, derived, reused, or guessed by an attacker.

How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
  1. Architecture and Design, Operation

    When the user changes or sets a password, check
    the password against a database of already compromised or
    breached passwords. These passwords are likely to be used in
    password guessing attacks.

Source: MITRE CWE-1391

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  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2026-44351 Public exploit

    fast-jwt: Empty HMAC secret accepted via async key resolver - JWT auth bypass

    fast-jwt provides fast JSON Web Token (JWT) implementation. Prior to 6.2.4, a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in fast-jwt's async key-resolver flow allows any unauthenticated attacker to forge arbitrary JWTs that are accepted as authentic. When t…

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2025-53558 Public exploit

    ZXHN-F660T and ZXHN-F660A provided by ZTE Japan K.K. use a common credential for all installations. With the knowledge …

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2024-51978 Public exploit EPSS 16%

    Authentication bypass via default password generation affecting multiple models from Brother Industries, Ltd, Toshiba Tec, and Konica Minolta, Inc.

    An unauthenticated attacker who knows the target device's serial number, can generate the default administrator password for the device. An unauthenticated attacker can first discover the target device's serial number via CVE-2024-51977 over HTTP/HTTPS/IPP, o…

  • High 7.1
    CVE-2024-40892 Public exploit

    Firewalla BTLE Weak Credentials

    A weak credential vulnerability exists in Firewalla Box Software versions before 1.979. This vulnerability allows a physically close attacker to use the license UUID for authentication and provision SSH credentials over the Bluetooth Low-Energy (BTLE) interfa…