node-forge has ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion

Description

An Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft deep ASN.1 structures that trigger unbounded recursive parsing. This leads to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via stack exhaustion when parsing untrusted DER inputs.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.3.2
• Patched version(s): 1.3.2

References

• GHSA-554w-wpv2-vw27
• CVE-2025-66031
• CWE-674
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• node-forge is vulnerable to ASN.1 OID Integer Truncation - CVE-2025-66030
• seajs Cross-site Scripting vulnerability - CVE-2024-51091
• Prototype Pollution in node-forge - CVE-2020-7720
• Deserialization of Untrusted Data in bson - CVE-2020-7610

Tags:

npm

node-forge