URL parsing in node-forge could lead to undesired behavior.

Description

The regex used for the forge.util.parseUrl API would not properly parse certain inputs resulting in a parsed data structure that could lead to undesired behavior.

Recommendation

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

• Affected version(s): < 1.0.0
• Patched version(s): 1.0.0

References

• GHSA-gf8q-jrpm-jvxq
• www.huntr.dev
• CWE-601
• OWASP 2021-A1

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
• vite allows server.fs.deny bypass via backslash on Windows - CVE-2025-62522
• Astro's `X-Forwarded-Host` is reflected without validation - CVE-2025-61925

Tags:

npm

node-forge