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 has an Interpretation Conflict vulnerability via its ASN.1 Validator Desynchronization - CVE-2025-12816
• node-forge is vulnerable to ASN.1 OID Integer Truncation - CVE-2025-66030
• Forge has signature forgery in RSA-PKCS due to ASN.1 extra field - CVE-2026-33894
• Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in `node-forge` (GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr) - CVE-2022-24773

Tags:

npm

node-forge