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CVE-2026-44523 (GCVE-0-2026-44523)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-14 18:42 – Updated: 2026-05-15 14:55
VLAI
Title
Note Mark: JWT Secret Weakness allows Full Account Takeover via token forgery
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-05-15 14:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-326 - Inadequate Encryption Strength
  • CWE-345 - Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
enchant97 note-mark Affected: < 0.19.4
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