CVE-2026-33894 (GCVE-0-2026-33894)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-27 20:45 – Updated: 2026-03-31 14:05
VLAI?
Title
Forge has signature forgery in RSA-PKCS due to ASN.1 extra field
Summary
Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.4.0, RSASSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification accepts forged signatures for low public exponent keys (e=3). Attackers can forge signatures by stuffing “garbage” bytes within the ASN structure in order to construct a signature that passes verification, enabling Bleichenbacher style forgery. This issue is similar to CVE-2022-24771, but adds bytes in an addition field within the ASN structure, rather than outside of it. Additionally, forge does not validate that signatures include a minimum of 8 bytes of padding as defined by the specification, providing attackers additional space to construct Bleichenbacher forgeries. Version 1.4.0 patches the issue.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
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digitalbazaar forge Affected: < 1.4.0
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