# Go Restful API Boilerplate: Hardcoded JWT Secret "random" Allows Token Forgery

Advisory record · `GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm` · `CVE-2026-48031` · `GO-2026-5515`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.1 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-798](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/798.html)
- **Tags:** [Hard-coded credentials](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/hard-coded-credentials.md)
- **Published:** 10 Jun 2026
- **Updated:** 25 Jun 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 10 Jun 2026, 13:39 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.1: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected packages

- `github.com/dhax/go-base` (Go): affected `<0.0.0-20260517152733-cc82b9740fa6`; fixed in `0.0.0-20260517152733-cc82b9740fa6`

## Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

> github.com/dhax/go-base versions before 0.0.0-20260517152733-cc82b9740fa6 default the JWT signing secret to the public value "random". Anyone who knows this can forge tokens for any user, including admins, and bypass authentication. Upgrade to 0.0.0-20260517152733-cc82b9740fa6 and set your own strong JWT secret.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.1 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (GitHub_M)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0063, the 50th percentile, on 11 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:06 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:06 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm)
- [OSV: GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm)
- <https://github.com/dhax/go-base/security/advisories/GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm>
- <https://github.com/dhax/go-base/commit/cc82b9740fa6b08e0fad409cd4b418e240dd0e00>
- <https://github.com/dhax/go-base>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-mqq6-462x-jxmm>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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