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Fencer Vulns
high 7.4

CVE-2026-119190 json

Forge: X.509 basicConstraints bypass in verifyCertificateChain() via deprecated extension OIDs 2.5.29.10 and 2.5.29.13

published 2026-10-29 10 d ago modified 2026-10-30 9 d ago also GHSA-5x38-2vff-x55p , EUVD-2026-113347

cvss
7.4
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 15%
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 parsed deprecated extension OIDs 2.5.29.10 and 2.5.29.13 as basicConstraints, and pki.verifyCertificateChain() used the first extension with that name. Exploitation requires a CA trusted by the application to issue a certificate carrying an attacker-supplied deprecated-OID extension, commonly because the CA copies extensions from a certificate signing request. By placing a permissive deprecated extension before the genuine 2.5.29.19 basicConstraints extension, the certificate holder could have the certificate accepted as a CA and issue certificates for arbitrary names, enabling server or client impersonation. If the issuing CA adds a keyUsage extension without keyCertSign, node-forge rejects the chain. 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-2026-119190 updated cvss 7.4

node-forge: node-forge: Server or client impersonation via improper handling of deprecated certificate extensions

  • 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
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
10 d ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 15% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-5x38-2vff-x55p referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
GitHub 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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-295 Improper Certificate Validation
  • CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.