CVE-2026-44523 PUBLISHED

Note Mark: JWT Secret Weakness allows Full Account Takeover via token forgery

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 06.05.2026 Published: 14.05.2026 Updated: 14.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 10

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Changed
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	enchant97
Product	note-mark
Versions	Version < 0.19.4 is affected

References

https://github.com/enchant97/note-mark/security/advisories/GHSA-q6mh-rqwh-g786

Problem Types

CWE-326: Inadequate Encryption Strength CWE
CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity CWE