CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2022-24771
High (7.5) in digitalbazaar forge. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in node-forge 1.3.0.
Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.3.0, 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. The issue has been addressed in `node-forge` version 1.3.0. There are currently no known workarounds.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-347
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- digitalbazaar:forge
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765 | npm | node-forge | <1.3.0 | 1.3.0 |
References
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/3f0b49a0573ef1bb7af7f5673c0cfebf00424df1
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/3f0b49a0573ef1bb7af7f5673c0cfebf00424df1
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765