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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.9

CVE-2026-119186 json

Forge: AES-GCM authentication bypass via unvalidated tagLength option

published 2026-10-29 10 d ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also GHSA-5cwg-6vw7-rj6p , EUVD-2026-113363

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
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 did not validate the AES-GCM tagLength option passed to start() during decryption through forge.cipher.createDecipher(). When an application derived tagLength from received data or used an unset or zero-like configuration value, a value that converted to zero together with an empty or missing authentication tag caused the calculated and supplied tags to compare as empty, so decipher.finish() accepted unauthenticated ciphertext. Applications that omit tagLength to use the 128-bit default or pass a fixed valid tag length are 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-2026-119186 updated cvss 5.9

node-forge: node-forge: Cryptographic authentication bypass via unvalidated AES-GCM tag length

  • 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
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-operator-bundle
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-bin.zip 7.14.1.CR3, amq-broker-maven-repository.zip 7.14.1.CR3
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • 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, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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 Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop 3c6fc75a2a6cf5bb9b8a667fddcbbf428132badc
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 rhceph/rhceph-4-dashboard-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • 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 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 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 “Fix deferred”
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  • Red Hat Fuse 7 redhat-fuse-sources.zip 7.13.0, redhat-fuse-maven-repository.zip 7.13.0
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-feature-server-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2 ansible-automation-platform/automation-portal, ansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • 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 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
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-5cwg-6vw7-rj6p referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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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