node-forge

### Summary When a CA store created by `pki.createCaStore()` holds two or more certificates with the same subject name, `pki.verifyCertificateChain()` permanently removes those certificates from the store while trying each one as the issuer. A peer can send any certificate that names that subject as its issuer to make all later verifications against those CA certificates fail. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `pki.verifyCertificateChain()` (`lib/x509.js`) asks the CA store for the issuer of each certificate with `caStore.getIssuer()`. When the store holds several certificates with the

CVE: CVE-2026-118780

### Summary `asn1.oidToDer()` did not range-check the first two arcs of an OID string, so an OID such as `0.42.840.113549.1.1.1` or `4294977127.18.840.113549.1.1.1` was encoded as the DER of a different OID (here rsaEncryption, `1.2.840.113549.1.1.1`). This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-66030. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details X.690 section 8.19 encodes the first two arcs of an OID as one subidentifier, `40 * arc1 + arc2`, where the first arc is 0, 1 or 2 and the second arc is at most 39 when the first is 0 or 1. `asn1.oidToDer()` in `lib/asn1.js` computed that value with no range c

CVE: CVE-2026-118775

### Summary The forge TLS client's check for a missing server certificate read the wrong property and never ran. A malicious TLS server, or an on-path attacker who removes the server's Certificate message, can make `connection.process()` throw a `TypeError`, which crashes applications that use the forge TLS client. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details After ServerHelloDone, `tls.handleServerHelloDone()` in `lib/tls.js` is meant to reject a server that sent no certificate with a fatal `insufficient_security` alert, after consulting the application's `verify` callback. The check tested `c.ser

CVE: CVE-2026-118778

### Summary The AES-GCM mode in forge.cipher does not validate the tagLength option passed to start(). With a tagLength of 0 or a value that converts to 0 (such as null, false, '' or '0'), the authentication tag is empty, and decipher.finish() returns true for any ciphertext and additional data when the supplied tag is empty or missing. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `modes.gcm.prototype.start()` in `lib/cipherModes.js` stored the `tagLength` option without validation, and `lib/cipher.js` documented it as accepting "0-128". After processing the data, `afterFinish()` truncates the 16

CVE: CVE-2026-119186

### Summary node-forge parses certificate extensions with the deprecated OIDs `2.5.29.10` and `2.5.29.13` as `basicConstraints`, and `forge.pki.verifyCertificateChain()` used the first extension with that name. A certificate with a forged deprecated-OID extension (`cA` TRUE) before its genuine `basicConstraints` extension (`cA` FALSE) is accepted as a CA certificate, and the same technique can hide a `pathLenConstraint`. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `lib/oids.js` maps the deprecated certificate extension OIDs `2.5.29.10` and `2.5.29.13` to the name `basicConstraints`, the same name

CVE: CVE-2026-119190

### Summary The `forge.http` client stored cookies from `Set-Cookie` response headers in a plain object keyed by cookie name and path. A malicious server could use the cookie name `__proto__` to add properties to `Object.prototype`, use inherited names such as `constructor` to add properties to `Object`, and send an empty cookie value to delete `Object.prototype` properties. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `client.setCookie()` in `lib/http.js` stored a cookie with `client.cookies[cookie.name][cookie.path] = cookie`, creating `client.cookies[cookie.name]` only when `!(cookie.name in cli

CVE: CVE-2026-118777

### Summary `pem.decode()`, which every node-forge API that parses PEM input uses, split messages with a regular expression that takes polynomial time on input without a matching END line, and parsed encapsulated headers with regular expressions that take quadratic time on long header lines. A remote attacker can block the Node.js event loop for seconds to minutes with a crafted input of a few tens of kilobytes. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `pem.decode()` in `lib/pem.js` found PEM messages with this regular expression: /\s*-----BEGIN ([A-Z0-9- ]+)-----\r?\n?([\x21-\x7e\s]+?(?:\

CVE: CVE-2026-118779

### Summary A connection created with `forge.tls.createConnection()` throws an uncaught `TypeError` from `process()` when it receives a record of another content type while waiting for the rest of a handshake message that was split across records. A peer can trigger this with 18 bytes before the handshake, without authentication, which terminates Node.js processes that use the documented socket wiring. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details In `lib/tls.js`, `_readRecord()` handles a record that arrives while a handshake message split across records is incomplete. If the record has any other

CVE: CVE-2026-119188

### Summary `BigInteger.prototype.modInverse()` in node-forge's bundled jsbn library enters an infinite loop when the value or the modulus is negative, for example when a negative public exponent is passed to `forge.pki.rsa.generateKeyPair()`. This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2026-33891 (GHSA-5m6q-g25r-mvwx), which handled only a zero value. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details `bnModInverse()` (`lib/jsbn.js`, exposed as `forge.jsbn.BigInteger.prototype.modInverse`) implements the binary extended Euclidean algorithm (Handbook of Applied Cryptography, Algorithm 14.61), which is defined for

CVE: CVE-2026-118781

### Summary Connections created with `forge.tls.createConnection()` processed received TLS records recursively, one stack level per record. A peer can send one chunk of thousands of small records, such as heartbeat records, which are accepted before the handshake, and `process()` throws `RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded`, which terminates Node.js processes that use the documented socket wiring. Fixed in node-forge 1.4.1. ### Details In `lib/tls.js`, `c.process()` reads one record and passes it to `_update()`, which calls the handler for the record type from `ctTable`. Every hand

CVE: CVE-2026-119187