Hono before 4.11.10 contains a timing attack vulnerability in the basicAuth and bearerAuth middlewares due to non-constant-time string comparison in the timingSafeEqual function. Attackers can exploit early termination of string equality checks to infer valid credentials through precise timing measurements.
CVE-2026-56764
Score 3.7 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-15. a secondary CVSS source baseline 3.7; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 3.7
- EG Score
- 3.7(high)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 13.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 15, 2026
Last Modified
July 15, 2026
References (2)
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-56764(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| hono | — | 4.11.10 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 12× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-21 15:25 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-20 17:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 14:31 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-19 02:29 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-18 10:04 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-17 07:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-17 07:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-16 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-15 11:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-15 11:54 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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