CVE-2026-118781 (GCVE-0-2026-118781)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-29 18:49
Modified
2026-10-30 16:09
CWE
  • CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Summary
Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used BigInteger.prototype.modInverse(), bnModInverse(), lib/jsbn.js, RSA public exponent e to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge's bundled jsbn implementation entered an infinite loop when BigInteger.prototype.modInverse() received a negative value or modulus. An attacker who could control the RSA public exponent passed to key generation, or a direct modInverse() operand, could block the Node.js event loop at full CPU. Parsed DER, PEM, JWK, PKCS#12, X.509, and TLS values are unsigned and cannot trigger this issue. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
digitalbazaar forge Version: < 1.4.1
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