Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge (GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765)

Description

RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code is lenient in checking the digest algorithm structure. This can allow a crafted structure that steals padding bytes and uses unchecked portion of the PKCS#1 encoded message to forge a signature when a low public exponent is being used.

Recommendation

Update the node-forge package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.3.0
• Patched version(s): 1.3.0

References

• GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765
• CVE-2022-24771
• CWE-347
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A2
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• node-forge has ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion - CVE-2025-66031
• node-forge has an Interpretation Conflict vulnerability via its ASN.1 Validator Desynchronization - CVE-2025-12816
• angular vulnerable to regular expression denial of service via the $resource service - CVE-2023-26117
• pdfmake is vulnerable to Throttling via repeatedly redirecting URL in file embedding - CVE-2025-11362

Tags:

npm

node-forge