Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
CWE-321
The product uses a hard-coded, unchangeable cryptographic key.
We track 210 vulnerabilities of this type. 100% are rated high or critical, and the average CVSS score is 8.7. 2 have been exploited in real attacks.
How this weakness is prevented
- Architecture and Design: Prevention schemes mirror that of hard-coded password storage.
Latest Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerabilities
- 7.5 High severity
netbird: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A static initialization vector (IV) in the encrypt function of netbird management's service from v0.23.2 to v0.29.1 allows attackers to obtain sensitive information (email addresses) when in possession of the audit events database.
- 7.5 High severity
Cisco Intelligent Node Manager: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A vulnerability in Cisco Intelligent Node (iNode) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to hijack the TLS connection between Cisco iNode Manager and associated intelligent nodes and send arbitrary traffic to an affected device. This vulnerab
- 7.1 High severity
mxs-dcp: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
The NXP Data Co-Processor (DCP) is a built-in hardware module for specific NXP SoCs¹ that implements a dedicated AES cryptographic engine for encryption/decryption operations. The dcp_tool reference implementation included in the repository selected the test k
- 9.9 Critical severity
ymf50b_firmware: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Certain Anpviz products contain a hardcoded cryptographic key stored in the firmware of the device. This affects IPC-D250, IPC-D260, IPC-B850, IPC-D850, IPC-D350, IPC-D3150, IPC-D4250, IPC-D380, IPC-D880, IPC-D280, IPC-D3180, MC800N, YM500L, YM800N_N2, YMF50B,
- 9.8 Critical severity
D-View: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
D-Link D-View Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of D-Link D-View. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
- 10.0 Critical severity
SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A vulnerability has been identified in SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (6GT2780-0DA00) (All versions < V3.0.1.1), SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (6GT2780-0DA10) (All versions < V3.0.1.1), SIMATIC RTLS Locating Manager (6GT2780-0DA20) (All versions < V3.0.1.1), SI
- 7.5 High severity
SCADA Data Gateway: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Triangle MicroWorks SCADA Data Gateway Use of Hard-coded Cryptograhic Key Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Triangle MicroWorks SCADA Data Gateway. Au
- 9.8 Critical severity
D-View: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
D-Link D-View Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Authentication Bypass Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to bypass authentication on affected installations of D-Link D-View. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
- 8.8 High severity
secret_server: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Delinea Secret Server before 11.7.000001 allows attackers to bypass authentication via the SOAP API in SecretServer/webservices/SSWebService.asmx. This is related to a hardcoded key, the use of the integer 2 for the Admin user, and removal of the oauthExpirati
- 8.1 High severity
cRPD: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
The Use of a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Juniper Networks Juniper Cloud Native Router (JCNR) and containerized routing Protocol Deamon (cRPD) products allows an attacker to perform Person-in-the-Middle (PitM) attacks which results in complete
- 9.8 Critical severity
Exceed Turbo X: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in OpenText™ Exceed Turbo X affecting versions 12.5.1 and 12.5.2. The vulnerability could compromise the cryptographic keys.
- 9.8 Critical severity
SmartRobot: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Intumit SmartRobot uses a fixed encryption key for authentication. Remote attackers can use this key to encrypt a string composed of the user's name and timestamp to generate an authentication code. With this authentication code, they can obtain administrator
- 8.1 High severity
LightPicture: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in osuuu LightPicture up to 1.2.2. This issue affects the function handle of the file /app/middleware/TokenVerify.php. The manipulation leads to use of hard-coded cryptographic key . The attack
- 9.1 Critical severity
agent-js: Use of Insufficiently Random Values
Impact: The library offers a function to generate an ed25519 key pair via Ed25519KeyIdentity.generate with an optional param to provide a 32 byte seed value, which will then be used as the secret key. When no seed value is provided, it is expected that the lib
- 9.8 Critical severity
WebITR: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Kaifa Technology WebITR is an online attendance system, it has a vulnerability in using hard-coded encryption key. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate valid token parameter and exploit this vulnerability to access system with arbitrary user account
- 9.8 Critical severity
AppsAnywhere Client: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Symmetric encryption used to protect messages between the AppsAnywhere server and client can be broken by reverse engineering the client and used to impersonate the AppsAnywhere server.
- 7.5 High severity
nkeys: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
NATS.io is a high performance open source pub-sub distributed communication technology, built for the cloud, on-premise, IoT, and edge computing. The cryptographic key handling library, nkeys, recently gained support for encryption, not just for signing/authen
- 7.8 High severity
EVE OS: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Due to the implementation of "deriveVaultKey", prior to version 7.10, the generated vault key would always have the last 16 bytes predetermined to be "arfoobarfoobarfo". This issue happens because "deriveVaultKey" calls "retrieveCloudKey" (which will always re
- 7.5 High severity
netmaker: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Prior to versions 0.17.1 and 0.18.6, hardcoded DNS key usage has been found in Netmaker allowing unauth users to interact with DNS API endpoints. The issue is patched in 0.17.1 and fixed in 0.18.6. If users are using 0.1
- 9.8 Critical severity
Kunduz - Homework Helper App: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Sifir Bes Education and Informatics Kunduz - Homework Helper App allows Authentication Abuse, Authentication Bypass. This issue affects Kunduz - Homework Helper App: before 6.2.3.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Vitals ESP: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Galaxy Software Services Vitals ESP is vulnerable to using a hard-coded encryption key. An unauthenticated remote attacker can generate a valid token parameter and exploit this vulnerability to access system to operate processes and access data. This issue aff
- 7.5 High severity
GMS: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in SonicWall GMS, SonicWall Analytics. This issue affects GMS: 9.3.2-SP1 and earlier versions; Analytics: 2.5.0.4-R7 and earlier versions.
- 9.8 Critical severity
MilesightVPN: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
An authentication bypass vulnerability exists in the requestHandlers.js verifyToken functionality of Milesight VPN v2.0.2. A specially-crafted network request can lead to authentication bypass. An attacker can send a network request to trigger this vulnerabili
- 9.8 Critical severity
MegaRAC_SPx: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
AMI SPx contains a vulnerability in the BMC where an Attacker may cause a use of hard-coded cryptographic key by a hard-coded certificate. A successful exploit of this vulnerability may lead to a loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.
- 7.5 High severity
EmbedPress – PDF Embedder, Embed YouTube…: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
The EmbedPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure due to hardcoded encryption key on the 'lock_content_form_handler' and 'display_password_form' function in versions up to, and including, 3.7.3. This makes it possible for unau
- 8.2 High severity
FactoryTalk System Services: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk System Services uses a hard-coded cryptographic key to generate administrator cookies. Hard-coded cryptographic key may lead to privilege escalation. This vulnerability may allow a local, authenticated non-admin user to genera
- 9.8 Critical severity
Code Dx: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Code Dx versions prior to 2023.4.2 are vulnerable to user impersonation attack where a malicious actor is able to gain access to another user's account by crafting a custom "Remember Me" token. This is possible due to the use of a hard-coded cipher which was u
- 8.1 High severity
CloudPanel: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
MGT-COMMERCE CloudPanel ships with a static SSL certificate to encrypt communications to the administrative interface, shared across every installation of CloudPanel. This behavior was observed in version 2.2.0. There has been no indication from the vendor thi
- 9.8 Critical severity
PanIndex: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
PanIndex is a network disk directory index. In Panindex prior to version 3.1.3, a hard-coded JWT key `PanIndex` is used. An attacker can use the hard-coded JWT key to sign JWT token and perform any actions as a user with admin privileges. Version 3.1.3 has a p
- 8.8 High severity
Cisco Industrial Network Director: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
A vulnerability in the monitoring application of Cisco Industrial Network Director could allow an authenticated, local attacker to access a static secret key used to store both local data and credentials for accessing remote systems. This vulnerability is due
- 7.8 High severity
Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Dell EMC SCG Policy Manager, versions from 5.10 to 5.12, contain(s) a Hard-coded Password Vulnerability. An attacker, with the knowledge of the hard-coded credentials, could potentially exploit this vulnerability to login to the system to gain admin privileges
- 9.8 Critical severity
Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Dell EMC SCG Policy Manager, versions from 5.10 to 5.12, contain(s) a contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability. An attacker with the knowledge of the hard-coded sensitive information, could potentially exploit this vulnerability to login to the sys
- 9.8 Critical severity
Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Dell EMC SCG Policy Manager, versions from 5.10 to 5.12, contain(s) a contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability. An attacker with the knowledge of the hard-coded sensitive information, could potentially exploit this vulnerability to login to the sys
- 9.8 Critical severity
Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Policy Manager: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Dell EMC SCG Policy Manager, versions from 5.10 to 5.12, contain(s) a contain a Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability. An attacker with the knowledge of the hard-coded sensitive information, could potentially exploit this vulnerability to login to the sys
- 7.8 High severity
Zoom Rooms for macOS: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Zoom Rooms for macOS clients before version 5.11.4 contain an insecure key generation mechanism. The encryption key used for IPC between the Zoom Rooms daemon service and the Zoom Rooms client was generated using parameters that could be obtained by a local lo
- 7.5 High severity
Industrial Automation DIALink: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Delta Industrial Automation DIALink versions 1.4.0.0 and prior are vulnerable to the use of a hard-coded cryptographic key which could allow an attacker to decrypt sensitive data and compromise the machine.
- 9.8 Critical severity
Remote Compact Controller (RCC) 972: Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key
Horner Automation’s RCC 972 with firmware version 15.40 has a static encryption key on the device. This could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized changes to the device, remotely execute arbitrary code, or cause a denial-of-service condition.
- 9.1 Critical severity
GX Works3: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 versions from 1.000A to 1.095Z, and Motion Control Setting(GX Works3 related software) versions from 1.000A to 1.065T allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose or tam
- 7.5 High severity
GX Works3: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 versions from 1.000A to 1.090U, GT Designer3 Version1 (GOT2000) versions from 1.122C to 1.290C, Motion Control Setting(GX Works3 related software) versions from 1.035M to 1.042U
- 7.5 High severity
GX Works3: Use of Hard-coded Credentials
Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key vulnerability in Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 versions from 1.000A and later allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to disclose sensitive information. As a result, unauthenticated attackers may view programs and project f