CWE-321 Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key

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

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vulnerabilities (511)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

IDseverity exploitable
CVE-2026-74233UScritical9.8OT critical—
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,…
CVE-2025-30406UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
Gladinet CentreStack through 16.1.10296.56315 (fixed in 16.4.10315.56368) has a deserialization vulnerability due to the CentreStack portal's hardcoded machineKey use, as exploited…
CVE-2016-4437UScritical9.8OT criticalKEV
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 rest…
CVE-2005-2611UShigh10.0OT criticalExploit
VERITAS Backup Exec for Windows Servers 8.6 through 10.0, Backup Exec for NetWare Servers 9.0 and 9.1, and NetBackup for NetWare Media Server Option 4.5 through 5.1 uses a static p…
CVE-2021-40859UScritical9.8OT highExploit
Backdoors were discovered in Auerswald COMpact 5500R 7.8A and 8.0B devices, that allow attackers with access to the web based management application full administrative access to t…
CVE-2020-10884UShigh8.8OT highExploit
This vulnerability allows network-adjacent attackers execute arbitrary code on affected installations of TP-Link Archer A7 Firmware Ver: 190726 AC1750 routers. Authentication is no…
CVE-2023-27584UScritical9.8OT high—
Dragonfly is an open source P2P-based file distribution and image acceleration system. It is hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) as an Incubating Level Project.…
CVE-2026-89026UScritical9.8OT highExploit
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 ide…
CVE-2026-26335UScritical9.8OT highExploit
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\\Ve…
CVE-2026-28326UShigh8.8OT highExploit
SolarWinds Access Rights Manager was reported to be affected by an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The issue stems from a hardcoded static key.
CVE-2020-1764UShigh8.6OT highExploit
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…
CVE-2013-0137UShigh10.0OT high—
The default configuration of the Digital Alert Systems DASDEC EAS device before 2.0-2 and the Monroe Electronics R189 One-Net EAS device before 2.0-2 contains a known SSH private k…
CVE-2025-13316UShigh8.1OT elevatedExploit
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 pass…
CVE-2000-0762UShigh10.0OT elevated—
The default installation of eTrust Access Control (formerly SeOS) uses a default encryption key, which allows remote attackers to spoof the eTrust administrator and gain privileges…
CVE-1999-0570UShigh10.0OT elevated—
Windows NT is not using a password filter utility, e.g. PASSFILT.DLL.
CVE-2020-6990UScritical9.8OT elevated—
Rockwell Automation MicroLogix 1400 Controllers Series B v21.001 and prior, Series A, all versions, MicroLogix 1100 Controller, all versions, RSLogix 500 Software v12.001 and prior…
CVE-2016-9335UScritical10.0OT elevated—
A hard-coded cryptographic key vulnerability was identified in Red Lion Controls Sixnet-Managed Industrial Switches running firmware Version 5.0.196 and Stride-Managed Ethernet Swi…
CVE-2001-1106UShigh7.5OT elevatedExploit
The default configuration of Sambar Server 5 and earlier uses a symmetric key that is compiled into the binary program for encrypting passwords, which could allow local users to br…
CVE-2025-69971UScritical9.8OT elevated—
FUXA v1.2.7 contains a hard-coded credential vulnerability in server/api/jwt-helper.js. The application uses a hard-coded secret key to sign and verify JWT Tokens. This allows remo…
CVE-2024-25731UShigh7.5OT elevatedExploit
The Elink Smart eSmartCam (com.cn.dq.ipc) application 2.1.5 for Android contains hardcoded AES encryption keys that can be extracted from a binary file. Thus, encryption can be def…
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