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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2022-24771 json

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge

published 2022-03-18 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765 , EUVD-2022-1403

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • npm node-forge 1.3.0
  • digitalbazaar forge 1.3.0
  • node-node-forge Debian 11 0.10.0~dfsg-3+deb11u1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24771

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-24771 updated cvss 7.5

node-forge: Signature verification leniency in checking `digestAlgorithm` structure can lead to signature forgery

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-ui-rhel8
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-api-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-db-migration-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-prometheus Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/apicast-rhel7-operator, 3scale-amp2/3scale-apicast-operator-bundle Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 3 advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-docs-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-rhel8-operator Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, pcs-snmp
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 node-forge Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator node-forge Red Hat Integration Service Registry node-forge Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 noobaa-core-container
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-ingester-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-collector-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-all-in-one-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-es-rollover-rhel8, +1 more Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 1.36.9-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:1739
show 4 more
  • Red Hat RHINT Service Registry 2.3.0 GA
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6835
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.11 for RHEL 8 odf4/mcg-core-rhel8 v4.11.0-30, odf4/odf-console-rhel8 v4.11.0-51
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6156
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.1 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2022:6813
  • Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services odo Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-prometheus, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8-operator 1.36.9-2, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel8 2.1.2-3 Red Hat A-MQ Online node-forge Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/search-ui-rhel8, rhacm2/kui-web-terminal-rhel8 Red Hat Data Grid 8 node-forge Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 node-forge
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 node-forge Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel8 Red Hat RHODF 4.11 for RHEL 8 odf4/cephcsi-rhel8 v4.11.0-45, odf4/odf-topolvm-rhel8 v4.11.0-24, odf4/mcg-rhel8-operator v4.11.0-28, odf4/ocs-rhel8-operator v4.11.0-67, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator v4.11.0-27, odf4/odr-rhel8-operator v4.11.0-27, +18 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm node-forge
<1.3.0
1.3.0

Affected products

  • digitalbazaar forge

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

References

Sources

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