Vulnerability · Published May 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2026-44523Note Mark: JWT Secret Weakness allows Full Account Takeover via token forgery

Critical 10.0

In plain English

A critical-severity insufficient verification of data authenticity in note-mark from enchant97. Proof-of-concept exploit code is public. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.1% (higher than 4% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)10.0Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)0.1%top 96.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: poc
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Note Mark is an open-source note-taking application. Prior to 0.19.4, no minimum length or entropy is enforced on the JWT_SECRET configuration value. The application accepts any base64-decodable secret regardless of size, including secrets as short as 1 byte. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.19.4.

Affected packages & fixed versions

EcosystemPackageFixed inAdvisory
Gogithub.com/enchant97/note-mark/backend0.0.0-20260501152247-18b587758667GHSA-q6mh-rqwh-g786
Gogithub.com/enchant97/note-mark/backend0.0.0-20260501152247-18b587758667GO-2026-5567

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
enchant97 note-mark < 0.19.4

Weakness: CWE-326, CWE-345 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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