CVE-2022-24772
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.14%Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge
Published: 3/18/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
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 does not check for tailing garbage bytes after decoding a `DigestInfo` ASN.1 structure. This can allow padding bytes to be removed and garbage data added 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/node-node-forgefrom 0, < 0.10.0~dfsg-3+deb11u1
- npm/node-forgefrom 0, < 1.3.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24772
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-24772
- PATCHhttps://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge
- WEBhttps://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/3f0b49a0573ef1bb7af7f5673c0cfebf00424df1
- WEBhttps://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/bb822c02df0b61211836472e29b9790cc541cdb2
- WEBhttps://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-x4jg-mjrx-434g