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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…

  • High 8.8
    CVE-2026-28326 Public exploit

    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

    SolarWinds Access Rights Manager was reported to be affected by an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The issue stems from a hardcoded static key.

  • 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 …

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2026-79551 Public exploit

    Tenda Technology Co., Ltd NVR_4H CH3 v2.1 V27.5.58.6 was discovered to contain a hardcoded cryptographic key.

  • 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…

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2026-15469 Public exploit

    Hard-coded Mesh Group Private Key in TP-Link Deco XE75, XE5300, and WE10800

    The use of hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability has been identified in the mesh functionality of Deco XE75 v3, XE5300 v3.6 and WE10800 v3.6.  A shared RSA-512 mesh group private key is present in the affected firmware and is used by the mesh protocol fo…

  • Medium 5.5
    CVE-2026-39031 Public exploit

    Lansweeper lsrunase 2.0 and lsencrypt 2.0 use RC4 encryption with a hardcoded 142-byte static key array to encrypt cred…

  • 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 …

  • High 7.3
    CVE-2025-55449 Public exploit

    AstrBot is vulnerable to RCE with hard-coded JWT signing keys

    AstrBotDevs AstrBot 3.5.15 has Advanced_System_for_Text_Response_and_Bot_Operations_Tool as the hardcoded private key used to sign a JWT.

  • 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…

  • High 8.2
    CVE-2025-13316 Public exploit

    Hard-coded encryption keys in Twonky Server

    Twonky Server 8.5.2 on Linux and Windows is vulnerable to a cryptographic flaw, use of hard-coded cryptographic keys. An attacker with knowledge of the encrypted administrator password can decrypt the value with static keys to view the plain text password and…

  • Medium 5.1
    CVE-2025-56801 Public exploit

    The Reolink Desktop Application 8.18.12 contains hardcoded credentials as the Initialization Vector (IV) in its AES-CFB…

  • Medium 5.1
    CVE-2025-56802 Public exploit

    The Reolink desktop application uses a hard-coded and predictable AES encryption key to encrypt user configuration file…

  • 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 …

  • High 7.7
    CVE-2024-56429 Public exploit

    itech iLabClient 3.7.1 relies on the hard-coded YngAYdgAE/kKZYu2F2wm6w== key (found in iLabClient.jar) for local users …

  • 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
  • High 8.6
    CVE-2020-1764 Public exploit

    Hard coded cryptographic key in Kiali

    A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability in the default configuration file was found in Kiali, all versions prior to 1.15.1. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw by creating their own JWT signed tokens and bypass Kiali authentication mechanisms, possib…

  • High 8.1
    CVE-2020-10884 Public exploit EPSS 39%

    This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers execute arbitrary code on affected installations of TP-Link Archer…

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2019-10963 Public exploit

    Moxa EDR 810, all versions 5.1 and prior, allows an unauthenticated attacker to be able to retrieve some log files from…

  • 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