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CWE-321: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

Variant Draft

The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key.

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

    Prevention schemes mirror that of hard-coded password storage.

Source: MITRE CWE-321

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  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-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…

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-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 …

  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2026-75431 Public exploit

    PowerJob Server version 5.1.2 (and likely earlier) uses a predictable JWT signing key for HS256-based authentication. T…

  • Critical 9.3
    CVE-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 …

  • Critical 9.1
    CVE-2026-5426 Public exploit

    KnowledgeDeliver deployments before February 24, 2026 use a static ASP.NET/IIS machineKey value

    Hard-coded ASP.NET/IIS machineKey value in Digital Knowledge KnowledgeDeliver deployments prior to February 24, 2026 allows adversaries to circumvent ViewState validation mechanisms and achieve remote code execution via malicious ViewState deserialization att…

  • Critical 9.3
    CVE-2026-26335 Public exploit

    Calero VeraSMART < 2022 R1 Static IIS Machine Keys Enable ViewState RCE

    Calero VeraSMART versions prior to 2022 R1 use static ASP.NET/IIS machineKey values configured for the VeraSMART web application and stored in C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Veramark\\VeraSMART\\WebRoot\\web.config. An attacker who obtains these keys can craft a va…

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2025-8625 Public exploit

    Copypress Rest API 1.1 - 1.2 - Missing Configurable JWT Secret and File-Type Validation to Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

    The Copypress Rest API plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via copyreap_handle_image() Function in versions 1.1 to 1.2. The plugin falls back to a hard-coded JWT signing key when no secret is defined and does not restrict which file ty…

  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2025-57174 Public exploit

    An issue was discovered in Siklu Communications Etherhaul 8010TX and 1200FX devices, Firmware 7.4.0 through 10.7.3 and …

  • Critical 9.0
    CVE-2025-30406 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 94%

    Gladinet CentreStack through 16.1.10296.56315 (fixed in 16.4.10315.56368) has a deserialization vulnerability due to th…

    KEV Apr 8, 2025
  • Critical 9.8
    CVE-2016-4437 Exploited Public exploit EPSS 93%

    Improper Access Control in Apache Shiro

    Apache Shiro before 1.2.5, when a cipher key has not been configured for the "remember me" feature, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or bypass intended access restrictions via an unspecified request parameter.

    KEV Nov 3, 2021