CWE-547 11 CVEs MITRE definition ↗

CWE-547: Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants

Overview

CWE-547 (Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants) documents a weakness type used across vulnerability databases and security assessments. Use the sections below for definition, context, and mapped CVEs.

Security impact
Security impact: Depends on product and context; use CVE records, severity scores, and MITRE guidance to prioritize.

Description

The product uses hard-coded constants instead of symbolic names for security-critical values, which increases the likelihood of mistakes during code maintenance or security policy change.

Applicable platforms

Kind Name Class Prevalence OS / CPE
language Not Language-Specific Undetermined

Related CVEs in this database

These CVEs are mapped to this weakness in this database and kept for traceability and search.

CVE Published Summary
CVE-2026-28256 2026-03-12 A Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants vulnerability in Trane Tracer SC, Tracer SC+, and Tracer Concierge could allow an attacker to disclose sensitive information and take over accounts.
CVE-2025-49151 2025-06-25 The affected products could allow an unauthenticated attacker to generate forged JSON Web Tokens (JWT) to bypass authentication.
CVE-2025-23253 2025-04-22 NVIDIA NvContainer service for Windows contains a vulnerability in its usage of OpenSSL, where an attacker could exploit a hard-coded constant issue by copying a malicious DLL in a hard-coded path. A …
CVE-2025-30206 2025-04-15 Dpanel is a Docker visualization panel system which provides complete Docker management functions. The Dpanel service contains a hardcoded JWT secret in its default configuration, allowing attackers t…
CVE-2025-2081 2025-03-13 Optigo Networks Visual BACnet Capture Tool and Optigo Visual Networks Capture Tool version 3.1.2rc11 are vulnerable to an attacker impersonating the web application service and mislead victim clients.…
CVE-2025-2079 2025-03-13 Optigo Networks Visual BACnet Capture Tool and Optigo Visual Networks Capture Tool version 3.1.2rc11 contain a hard coded secret key. This could allow an attacker to generate valid JWT (JSON Web Token…
CVE-2024-41885 2024-12-24 Team ENVY, a Security Research TEAM has found a flaw that allows for a remote code execution on the NVR. The seed string for the encrypt key was hardcoding. The manufacturer has released patch firmwar…
CVE-2024-39888 2024-07-09 A vulnerability has been identified in Mendix Encryption (All versions >= V10.0.0 < V10.0.2). Affected versions of the module define a specific hard-coded default value for the EncryptionKey constant,…
CVE-2024-32021 2024-05-14 Git is a revision control system. Prior to versions 2.45.1, 2.44.1, 2.43.4, 2.42.2, 2.41.1, 2.40.2, and 2.39.4, when cloning a local source repository that contains symlinks via the filesystem, Git ma…
CVE-2023-1712 2023-03-30 Use of Hard-coded, Security-relevant Constants in GitHub repository deepset-ai/haystack prior to 0.1.30.
CVE-2019-14837 2020-01-07 A flaw was found in keycloack before version 8.0.0. The owner of 'placeholder.org' domain can setup mail server on this domain and knowing only name of a client can reset password and then log in. For…

Previous names

  • Security-relevant Constants (2008-04-11)

Content submission

Name
Anonymous Tool Vendor (under NDA)
Date
2006-07-19
Version
Draft 3

Content modifications

Date Name Version Importance Comment
2008-07-01 Eric Dalci 1.0 updated Potential_Mitigations, Time_of_Introduction
2008-09-08 CWE Content Team 1.0 updated Description, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2008-11-24 CWE Content Team 1.1 updated Description, Potential_Mitigations, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2011-06-01 CWE Content Team 1.13 updated Common_Consequences
2011-06-27 CWE Content Team 2.0 updated Common_Consequences
2012-05-11 CWE Content Team 2.2 updated Common_Consequences, Relationships
2012-10-30 CWE Content Team 2.3 updated Potential_Mitigations
2014-07-30 CWE Content Team 2.8 updated Relationships
2017-11-08 CWE Content Team 3.0 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Relationships, Taxonomy_Mappings
2019-01-03 CWE Content Team 3.2 updated Relationships, Weakness_Ordinalities
2020-02-24 CWE Content Team 4.0 updated Relationships
2021-10-28 CWE Content Team 4.6 updated Relationships
2023-01-31 CWE Content Team 4.10 updated Description
2023-04-27 CWE Content Team 4.11 updated Detection_Factors, Relationships, Type
2023-06-29 CWE Content Team 4.12 updated Demonstrative_Examples, Mapping_Notes
2024-02-29 CWE Content Team 4.14 updated Demonstrative_Examples
2025-12-11 CWE Content Team 4.19 updated Applicable_Platforms, Common_Consequences, Relationships
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