Weakness (CWE)
CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key.
How to prevent it (1 mitigation)
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Architecture and Design
Prevention schemes mirror that of hard-coded password storage.
Source: MITRE CWE-321
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Critical 9.8
AstroBlocks: Admin session tokens can be forged due to a hard-coded fallback JWT secret and a mismatched environment variable name
AstroBlocks is a block-first CMS for Astro projects. Prior to version 3.4.0, admin session tokens can be forged due to a hard-coded fallback JWT secret and a mismatched environment variable name. An attacker who knows the public fallback value (readable in th…
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Critical 9.8
Kubero 3.0.0 through 3.1.1 Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded JWT Secret
Kubero 3.0.0 through 3.1.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to forge administrative JWTs by using a hardcoded fallback signing secret when JWT_SECRET is unset. Attackers can sign tokens with arbitrar…
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Critical 9.8
Apache OFBiz: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key in JWT Token Authentication Enables Unauthenticated Administrative Access
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key in JWT token authentication in Apache OFBiz 24.09.06 and 24.09.07 on all platforms allows an unauthenticated, network-reachable attacker to obtain full administrative access via a forged JWT signed with the factory-default …
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-120209 Public exploit
AJ-Report through 1.7.1 Authentication Bypass leading to RCE via Share-Token
AJ-Report through 1.7.1 signs share tokens with a hard-coded JWT secret, allowing attackers to forge valid Share-Tokens offline. Attackers can mint a token with reportCode 'dataSet' to access the testTransform endpoint, which passes scripts to GroovyClassLoad…
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Critical 9.8
ng-antd-admin: Hardcoded JWT Secret allows Authentication Bypass in ng-antd-admin
ng-antd-admin is an Angular and NestJS administration system template. Prior to 22.0, a hardcoded default `JWT` secret permits token forgery when a deployment has not replaced the default secret, without a startup warning. An attacker can bypass authenticatio…
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Critical 9.8
OpenDeepWiki through 2.0.6 Hard-coded JWT Signing Key Admin Token Forgery
OpenDeepWiki through 2.0.6 contains a hard-coded JWT signing key vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens using the publicly known Jwt:SecretKey in appsettings.json. Attackers can mint HS256 bearer tokens with an Admin…
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Critical 9.8
Dell PowerProtect Data Domain, Feature Release versions 7.7.1.0 through 8.8, LTS2024 release versions 7.13.1.0 through …
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Critical 9.8
nest-admin before 1.0.1 Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded JWT Secret
nest-admin before 1.0.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator tokens by using a hardcoded JWT_SECRET committed in .env.production. Attackers can sign tokens with the known secret that JwtS…
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Critical 9.8
DataBuff ai-apm-web through 0.1.10 Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded HMAC Secret
DataBuff ai-apm-web through 0.1.10 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge admin session tokens by using the hardcoded HMAC secret in JwtTokenService. Attackers can sign a payload of admin and a future ex…
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Critical 9.8
Simple Admin Core through 1.8.7 Hard-Coded JWT Secret Authentication Bypass
Simple Admin Core through 1.8.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge super administrator tokens by using the hard-coded Auth.AccessSecret in api/etc/core.yaml. Attackers can sign a JWT with the public …
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Critical 9.1
Token Signing Key Allows Unauthenticated Administrative Access
When the default self-signed certificate is used, an attacker could gain administrative access to the application. The SSL certificate for the web interface is used to sign JWT access tokens that are used to validate that the user is logged in. When the defau…
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Critical 9.8
vlife through 2.0.1 Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded JWT Secret in TokenUtil
vlife through 2.0.1 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge JWTs using the hardcoded HS256 signing key in TokenUtil. Attackers can sign a token with superUser=true and arbitrary groupIds claims to gain su…
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Critical 9.8
MCP Context Forge: Hardcoded default JWT_SECRET_KEY shipped in source and .env.example enables pre-authentication platform admin token forgery
MCP Context Forge is an MCP gateway and administrative platform. Prior to 1.0.2, mcpgateway/config.py and .env.example ship a known JWT_SECRET_KEY, while verify_jwt_token() accepts HS256 tokens signed with that key and get_current_user() creates a platform ad…
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Critical 9.1
BotSharp through 5.2.0 Authentication Bypass via Hard-Coded JWT Signing Key
BotSharp through 5.2.0 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to forge bearer tokens using the hard-coded Jwt:Key in WebStarter appsettings.json. Attackers can sign tokens with the committed HMAC secret an…
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Critical 9.3
Information Disclosure Vulnerability in Schmooze dating mobile Application
This vulnerability exists in the Schmooze app due to the use of hardcoded credentials and cryptographic keys in the client application. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by decompiling the distributed application package and …
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Critical 9.3
: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Johnson Controls EasyIO FS32 allows : Retrieve Embedded Sensitiv…
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Critical 9.8
A hard-coded JWT signing secret key may allow administrative functions to be abused using fraudulently generated Bearer tokens
Hitachi Coding Software Suite contains a vulnerability related to Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key. The Hardcoding of JWT signing secret key allows an attacker to generate unauthorized Bearer tokens and exploit administrative functions. This issue affects …
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Critical 10.0
Sensitive data exposure
ZohoCorp ManageEngine Applications Manager versions 182200 and below were vulnerable to exposure of a Google Cloud service-account private key in the Applications Manager installer, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to impersonate the service acco…
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Critical 9.1
Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A hardcoded cryptographic client authentication key vulnerability exists in the robot testing framework component of Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard.
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Critical 9.0
Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A hardcoded cryptographic server key vulnerability exists in the deployer-ng Update Controller component of Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard.
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-89026 Public exploit
Issabel Framework Hard-coded JWT Key RCE via pbxapi/manager/originate
The Issabel Framework, the web framework supporting Issabel PBX software, before commit b97dbaf contains a hard-coded HS256 JWT signing key in the pbxapi index.php file that is identical across every installation, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to …
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Critical 9.8
Crawlab through 0.6.3 Authentication Bypass via Hard-coded JWT Secret
Crawlab through 0.6.3 uses a hard-coded HMAC-SHA256 secret for JWT token signing that cannot be overridden via configuration or environment variables. Unauthenticated attackers can forge valid administrator tokens to access administrative APIs and execute cod…
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Critical 9.8
MaxSite CMS through 109.6 Authentication Bypass via Hardcoded Encryption Key
MaxSite CMS through 109.6 ships with a hardcoded session encryption key in application/config/config.php that is never changed during installation, allowing unauthenticated attackers to forge administrator session cookies. Attackers can mint a malicious ci_se…
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Critical 9.1
OpenIDC/cjose uses all-zero Content Encryption Key for AES-CBC-HMAC JWE encryption
OpenIDC/cjose is a C library implementing the Javascript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE). In versions 0.6.1 through 0.6.2.5, when cjose encrypts a JWE using an AES-CBC-HMAC content-encryption algorithm (`A128CBC-HS256`, `A192CBC-HS384`, or `A256CBC-HS512…
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Critical 9.1CVE-2026-75431 Public exploit
PowerJob Server version 5.1.2 (and likely earlier) uses a predictable JWT signing key for HS256-based authentication. T…
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-74233 Exploited
Zbtlink MQWrt infosrvd Command Injection
Zbtlink WE1326, WE357, WE5926, WE5926-WD, WE826-Q, WE826-T2, WE826-WD, WG108, and WG3526 firmware 19.1101, Zbtlink WE2426-C firmware 19.1112, Zbtlink WE5926-EC_QP firmware 20.0516, Zbtlink WF3526-P firmware 19.051, CTN720-W1, LF-1541, and MT7620N firmware 19.…
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Critical 9.1
An issue in Trueview T18061 WiFi 3MP Robot Pan-Tilt Security Camera Version 1.0 allows a physically proximate attacker …
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Critical 9.1
Hardcoded Cryptographic Key in Bilin Software's HUMANIST Digital Human Resources
Use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in Bilin Software and Informatics Consultancy Inc. HUMANIST Digital Human Resources allows Read Sensitive Constants Within an Executable. This issue affects HUMANIST Digital Human Resources: from 26.0 before 2…
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Critical 9.1
Hardcoded Cryptographic Key on GV-AS1620 Controller Firmware (GV-Cloud)
The product firmware contains an embedded, static RSA private key utilized by the Lighttpd web server for TLS termination. Exposure of this private key allows malicious actors to breach the confidentiality and integrity of HTTPS communications, enabling traff…
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Critical 9.1
Hardcoded Cryptographic Key on GV-AS1620 Controller Firmware (GV-ASManager)
The product firmware contains an embedded, static RSA private key utilized by the Lighttpd web server for TLS termination. Exposure of this private key allows malicious actors to breach the confidentiality and integrity of HTTPS communications, enabling traff…
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Critical 9.8
VPS.org one-click Zulip template deployment instance contains multiple vulnerabilities
Deployment of the VPS.org one-click Zulip template deploys a hardcoded application signing key, a default database password ("zulip"), and DISABLE_HTTPS=True.
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Critical 9.1
CentreStack < 17.5 Hardcoded Key Token Forgery RCE
CentreStack before 17.5 contains a hardcoded cryptographic key vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge arbitrary encrypted tokens by exploiting a static SysNumber value used as entropy for AccessTicket.Encrypt() and AccessTicket.Decrypt()…
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Critical 9.8
An issue was discovered in Quest KACE Systems Deployment Appliance (SMA) 11.0.273. It uses a hardcoded symmetric encryp…
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Critical 9.8
praisonai-platform: JWT signing key defaults to hardcoded "dev-secret-change-me", allowing token forgery for any user when PLATFORM_ENV is unset
PraisonAI Platform is the platform layer for the PraisonAI multi-agent teams system. Versions prior to 0.1.4 have an insecure default cryptographic key. The JWT signing secret defaults to the hardcoded literal `"dev-secret-change-me"` when `PLATFORM_JWT_SECRE…
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Critical 9.1
clawvet < 0.7.5 Hard-coded JWT Secret Session Forgery
clawvet self-hosted API server (apps/api) before 0.7.5 hard-codes a fallback JWT secret ('clawvet-dev-secret-change-me') in auth.ts and ships it as the default in .env.example. Because GET /api/v1/scans returns scan records containing userId values without au…
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Critical 9.8
Flowise - Weak Default JWT Secrets in Authentication Middleware
Flowise before 3.1.0 (affected versions 3.0.13 and earlier) uses weak hardcoded default JWT secrets ('auth_token', 'refresh_token') and default audience and issuer values ('AUDIENCE', 'ISSUER') in the enterprise passport authentication middleware (packages/se…
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Critical 9.8
Naxclow IoT Platform Use of hard-coded cryptographic key
Naxclow devices use a uniform request-signing scheme based on a hard-coded, platform-wide salt embedded in every firmware image. Once this salt is recovered from any device, an attacker can generate valid signatures for arbitrary device or account operations …
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Critical 9.1
Aqara Home Android SDK hardcoded keys
Aqara Home Android (com.lumiunited.aqarahome) 6.0.0 (and white-label clients embedding the same liblumidevsdk.so) uses hard-coded cryptographic keys, which is an instance of "CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key" and has an estimated CVSS of CVSS:3.1/…
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Critical 9.3CVE-2026-46395 Public exploit
HAX CMS Vulnerable to Private Key Disclosure via Broken HMAC Implementation
HAX CMS helps manage microsite universe with PHP or NodeJs backends. Prior to version 26.0.0, the `hmacBase64()` function in the HAXcms Node.js backend contains two critical cryptographic implementation errors that together allow any unauthenticated attacker …
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Critical 9.1
Apache OFBiz: Unauthenticated RCE via Default JWT Signing Key and Widget Template Injection
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Apache OFBiz. This issue affects Apache OFBiz: before 24.09.06. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 24.09.06, which fixes the issue.