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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2026-118782 json

Forge: PKCS#12 MAC forgery and constant-key PBE via zero iteration count

published 2026-10-29 10 d ago modified 2026-11-03 5 d ago also GHSA-jc66-7q78-782g , EUVD-2026-113341

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 2%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, node-forge accepted a PKCS#12 MAC or PKCS#12 password-based encryption iteration count of zero or less. pki.pbe.generatePkcs12Key() then returned a constant key independent of the password and salt, allowing crafted PKCS#12 input processed by forge.pkcs12.pkcs12FromAsn1() to bypass password-based integrity checks. Predictable encryption keys and IVs also affected PKCS#12 PBE using pbeWithSHAAnd3-KeyTripleDES-CBC or pbewithSHAAnd40BitRC2-CBC, including shrouded key bags, encrypted SafeContents, and PKCS#8 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY input processed independently by forge.pki.decryptPrivateKeyInfo(). PBES2/PBKDF2-encrypted content is unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

Patch / fix

  • npm node-forge 1.4.1

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-2026-118782 updated cvss 7.5

node-forge: node-forge: Integrity verification bypass via zero iteration count in PKCS#12 handling

  • Red Hat Node HealthCheck Operator workload-availability/node-remediation-console-rhel8, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-rhel9-operator, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-operator-bundle, workload-availability/node-healthcheck-must-gather-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8, openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/logic-rhel9-operator Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-maven-repository.zip 7.14.1.CR3
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 automation-controller 4.5.37-1.el8ap, automation-platform-ui 2.6.15-1.el9ap, automation-gateway 2.5.20260923-1.el9ap, ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8, automation-eda-controller 1.0.10-0.1.20260317.git9cae940.el8ap
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop 3c6fc75a2a6cf5bb9b8a667fddcbbf428132badc
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 rhceph/rhceph-4-dashboard-rhel8
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Connectivity Link 1 rhcl-1/rhcl-rhdh-dynamic-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-lightspeed-backend, rhdh/red-hat-developer-hub-backstage-plugin-orchestrator-backend Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI (RHEL AI) 3 rhelai3/bootc-cuda-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-rocm-rhel9, rhelai3/bootc-gaudi-rhel9, rhelai3/disk-image-cuda-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 redhat-fuse-sources.zip 7.13.0, redhat-fuse-maven-repository.zip 7.13.0
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9 Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-operator-bundle
    not affected: component not present
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  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-bin.zip 7.14.1.CR3 Red Hat build of Apache Camel for Spring Boot 4 rhaf-camel-spring-boot-maven-repository.zip 4.18.4.CS6, rhaf-camel-for-springboot-maven-repository.zip 3.5.16.CS2
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, grafana, pcs-snmp, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, +12 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 pcs, grafana, pcs-snmp, grafana-selinux, grafana 12.4.3-2.el10, pcs 0.12.0-3.el10_0.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana 12.4.3-2.el10, pcs 0.12.0-3.el10_0.5
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat Hardened Images grafana13.1 13.1.8-0.5.hum1, grafana13.2 13.2.4-0.4.hum1, grafana12.4 12.4.13-0.5.hum1
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

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
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
5 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.13% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 2% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-jc66-7q78-782g referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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
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
<1.4.1
1.4.1

Affected products

  • digitalbazaar forge

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-354 Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value
  • CWE-1284 Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

References

Sources

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