Weakness (CWE)
CWE-798: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
The product contains hard-coded credentials, such as a password or cryptographic key.
How to prevent it (5 mitigations)
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Architecture and Design
For outbound authentication: store passwords, keys, and other credentials outside of the code in a strongly-protected, encrypted configuration file or database that is protected from access by all outsiders, including other local users on the same system. Properly protect the key (CWE-320). If you cannot use encryption to protect the file, then make sure that the permissions are as restrictive as possible [REF-7].
In Windows environments, the Encrypted File System (EFS) may provide some protection.
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Architecture and Design
For inbound authentication: Rather than hard-code a default username and password, key, or other authentication credentials for first time logins, utilize a "first login" mode that requires the user to enter a unique strong password or key.
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Architecture and Design
If the product must contain hard-coded credentials or they cannot be removed, perform access control checks and limit which entities can access the feature that requires the hard-coded credentials. For example, a feature might only be enabled through the system console instead of through a network connection.
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Architecture and Design
For inbound authentication using passwords: apply strong one-way hashes to passwords and store those hashes in a configuration file or database with appropriate access control. That way, theft of the file/database still requires the attacker to try to crack the password. When handling an incoming password during authentication, take the hash of the password and compare it to the saved hash.
Use randomly assigned salts for each separate hash that is generated. This increases the amount of computation that an attacker needs to conduct a brute-force attack, possibly limiting the effectiveness of the rainbow table method.
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Architecture and Design
For front-end to back-end connections: Three solutions are possible, although none are complete.
- The first suggestion involves the use of generated passwords or keys that are changed automatically and must be entered at given time intervals by a system administrator. These passwords will be held in memory and only be valid for the time intervals.
- Next, the passwords or keys should be limited at the back end to only performing actions valid for the front end, as opposed to having full access.
- Finally, the messages sent should be tagged and checksummed with time sensitive values so as to prevent replay-style attacks.
Source: MITRE CWE-798
1,037 results · Feed
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Medium 5.3
PipraPay pp-token anti-CSRF pp-adapter.php hash_hmac hard-coded credentials
A weakness has been identified in PipraPay 3.0.0. Affected by this vulnerability is the function hash_hmac of the file pp-content/pp-include/pp-adapter.php of the component pp-token anti-CSRF Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to hard-coded credential…
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Medium 5.8
AIS products use vendor-wide hard-coded database credentials
Shared components expose hard-coded Access, workgroup, CCBasic, DBISAM, and related database credentials that are identical across installations.
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High 8.1
AIS shared test login provider contains fixed administrative credentials
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Medium 6.8
Multiple Vulnerabilities in IBM API Connect
IBM API Connect 10.0.8.0 through 10.0.8.12 could allow an attacker with access to stored data to decrypt sensitive credentials due to the use of a hard-coded cryptographic key. The key protecting stored credentials is built into the product, so credentials co…
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High 7.5
Skyline DataMiner BrokerGateway Embedded API Key Authentication Bypass
Skyline DataMiner BrokerGateway contains an embedded API key vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to retrieve the installation-specific BrokerGateway key even while pairing mode is disabled. Attackers can use the retrieved key to obtain the unr…
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Medium 5.8
Kubeflow Pipelines: Unauthenticated SSRF vulnerability in Kubeflow Pipelines TensorBoard proxy
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Medium 6.3
langgenius dify Sandbox Run __init__.py hard-coded credentials
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High 7.5
VitaFit Android < 2.8.1.0 Hardcoded Credentials Disclosure
VitaFit Android application (com.vt.vitafit) before 2.8.1.0 contains a hardcoded credentials vulnerability that allows attackers to extract confidential third-party integration secrets by decompiling the APK. Attackers can retrieve embedded WeChat, Tencent QQ…
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High 8.8
Hardcoded Credentials Vulnerability in Tata Motors iRA and iRA.ev mobile application
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Critical 10.0
Qihoo 360 Whole Home Router M5 Boot Script mpt start hard-coded credentials
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Critical 9.8
Unauthenticated Hardcoded Password Vulnerabilities in HPE Networking Fabric Composer Command-Line Interface allow Unauthorized Administrative Access
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High 8.2
Attendo Admin Android 3.0.13 Hard-coded MQTT Broker Credentials
Attendo (formerly Petpooja Payroll) Admin Android application version 3.0.13 and earlier contains a hard-coded credentials vulnerability that allows attackers to extract production MQTT broker credentials by decompiling the APK's bundled Flutter configuration…
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Medium 5.3
WIT SynApps Runtime 1.4.11 Hardcoded OAuth Credentials Disclosure
WIT SynApps Runtime through 1.4.11 contains a hardcoded credentials vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to recover static OAuth clientId and clientSecret values embedded in JavaScript delivered to the frontend, such as in parameters.js. Attack…
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Critical 9.4
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High 8.8
Songloft 2.9.0 before 2.13.6 Hardcoded Admin Credentials in Embedded Backend
Songloft 2.9.0 before 2.13.6 contains a hardcoded credentials vulnerability that allows adjacent network attackers to authenticate as administrator using the fixed admin/admin pair. Attackers on the same network can log in via the /api/v1/auth/login endpoint …
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High 8.6
Hardcoded API Token in Foxit Official Website
A sensitive information exposure vulnerability exists on the Foxit official website because JavaScript code contains third-party authorization information. This may allow unauthorized parties to obtain or misuse the exposed credentials.
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Medium 6.3
Alpine iLX-F511 SSH Hard-Coded Credentials Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
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High 7.5
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Medium 6.3
Part-DB: Hardcoded APP_SECRET enables forged remember-me cookie
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High 7.5
Kiloview E3 NDI Encoder Use of Hard-coded Credentials
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High 7.4
NewType Infortech｜NT OneAPP - Hard-coded Credentials
NT OneAPP developed by NewType Infortech has a Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability. Unauthenticated remote attackers can obtain the hard-coded cryptographic key and decrypt login request contents, thereby obtaining users' plaintext account credentials and de…
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Medium 5.3
SAML SSO - Service Provider - Moderately critical - Embedded credentials - SA-CONTRIB-2026-148
Use of Hard-coded Credentials vulnerability in Drupal SAML SSO - Service Provider allows Retrieve Embedded Sensitive Data. This issue affects SAML SSO - Service Provider versions: from 0.0.0 to 3.2.0.
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Medium 5.3
Girafit Camera App 1.9.1 Hardcoded TURN Credentials Disclosure
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Critical 9.8
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High 8.8
Apache IoTDB: Legacy Pipe Privilege Escalation
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Critical 9.8
Best Practice Software Bp Premier before 1.14.1.1128 Hardcoded SQL Server Administrative Credential
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Medium 6.5
Trigger.dev before 4.5.4 Hardcoded Coordinator Secret Authentication Bypass via Socket.IO
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High 8.8
IBM Verify Identity Access and IBM Security Verify Access Hard-coded Credentials
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Medium —
agent-router: MCP session resume does not verify the embedded anti-hijacking subject; default Helm seed makes session IDs forgeable
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High 7.4
D-Link E15/M32/R15/R32 MQTT Broker passwd hard-coded credentials
A vulnerability was detected in D-Link E15, M32, R15 and R32. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file /etc/emDaemon/passwd of the component MQTT Broker. The manipulation results in hard-coded credentials. It is possible to launch the attack rem…
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Critical 9.8
Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology EseeCloud Use of Hard-coded Credentials
An attacker can use a hard-coded credential to log in to EseeCloud devices.
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Critical 9.8
Jooan JA-A12 Unauthenticated Root RCE via SetDiagMode Hard-Coded Credentials
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High 8.8
EnergizeLab AI Station Default Root Credentials with SSH Enabled
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Medium 5.9
FileRise: Insecure default cryptographic key fallback in manual installs
FileRise is a self-hosted web-based file manager with multi-file upload, editing, and batch operations. From 3.9.0 until 3.22.0, pristine manual FileRise installations without PERSISTENT_TOKENS_KEY or metadata/persistent_tokens.key can activate a published le…
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High 7.3
cemtan sar2html sar2html.py hard-coded credentials
A security flaw has been discovered in cemtan sar2html 4.0.0. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file sar2html.py. The manipulation of the argument SECRET_KEY results in hard-coded credentials. The attack can be executed remotel…
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Medium 5.5
Windows Update Orchestrator Service Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability
Use of hard-coded credentials in Windows Update Orchestrator Service allows an authorized attacker to bypass a security feature locally.
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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
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Critical 9.3
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Critical 9.8CVE-2026-109566 Public exploit
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Medium 6.3
meetecho janus-gateway Admin API admin.js hard-coded credentials
A security vulnerability has been detected in meetecho janus-gateway up to 1.4.2. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file html/demos/admin.js of the component Admin API. Such manipulation leads to hard-coded credentials. The attack can be executed…