Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-6580

Exposed Creds

Published
19 April 2026
Modified
22 April 2026
CVSS Score v4 6.9
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Raw vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
EPSS Score 0.0028 20th percentile
Risk Priority 40 floored blend · peak EPSS

CVSS and EPSS are reproduced from their sources (NVD, FIRST EPSS). Risk Priority is our own derived reading, not an NVD score.

Summary

CVE-2026-6580 is a medium-severity Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key (CWE-321) vulnerability. Its CVSS base score is 6.9 (Medium).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Private Keys (T1552.004); ranked at the 20th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to SC-12 (Cryptographic Key Establishment and Management) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

Deeper analysis AI-assisted summary

Synthesised by an AI model from the NVD description and linked references — a reading aid, not an authoritative source.

CVE-2026-6580 affects liangliangyy DjangoBlog versions up to 2.1.0.0, specifically an unknown function in the file owntracks/views.py within the Amap API Call Handler component. The vulnerability stems from the use of a hard-coded cryptographic key, which is exposed through manipulation of the 'key' argument.

The vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction, per its CVSS 3.1 score of 7.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L). Remote attackers can trigger the issue to access the hard-coded key, potentially leading to limited impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is linked to CWEs 320 (Missing Cryptographic Key Management) and 321 (Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key).

Advisories on VulDB and a GitHub repository detail the vulnerability, including proof-of-concept exploit information. The vendor was contacted early but provided no response, and no patches or official mitigations have been issued. The exploit has been publicly disclosed and may be used by attackers.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A security vulnerability has been detected in liangliangyy DjangoBlog up to 2.1.0.0. Affected is an unknown function of the file owntracks/views.py of the component Amap API Call Handler. Such manipulation of the argument key leads to use of hard-coded cryptographic…

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key . The attack may be launched remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise Techniques

T1552.004 Private Keys Credential Access
Adversaries may search for private key certificate files on compromised systems for insecurely stored credentials.
T1552 Unsecured Credentials Credential Access
Adversaries may search compromised systems to find and obtain insecurely stored credentials.
T1552.001 Credentials In Files Credential Access
Adversaries may search local file systems and remote file shares for files containing insecurely stored credentials.
Derived from this CVE’s CWE(s) via the direct CWE→ATT&CK cross-walk.

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-8739Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
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CVE-2026-5456Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2026-5454Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2025-15108Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2025-15005Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2026-5471Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2025-14651Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2025-10080Shared CWE-320, CWE-321
CVE-2026-5457Shared CWE-320, CWE-321

Affected Assets

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

Requiring cryptographic keys to be established and managed according to defined requirements prevents developers from embedding static unchangeable keys.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.PS-06 mostly match
prevents

Secure-SDLC activities such as code review and secret scanning directly prevent embedding static keys.

PR.DS-01 partial match
prevents

Data-at-rest protection policies require proper key management and therefore discourage hard-coded keys.

PR.DS-02 partial match
prevents

Data-in-transit protection similarly depends on non-hard-coded keys for encryption.

PR.PS-01 partial match
prevents

Configuration baselines and reviews can prohibit hard-coded keys in deployed artifacts.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

prevents

Key-management controls that govern generation, rotation and protection of keys make the use of embedded hard-coded cryptographic keys less likely and easier to detect.

References