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Medium · 4.8 CVE-2026-118777 EUVD-2026-113335GHSA-6wvx-3r32-xmcg

Forge: Prototype Pollution in forge.http cookie handling via a malicious Set-Cookie

Published Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the forge.http client stored cookie names and paths from Set-Cookie response headers in ordinary JavaScript objects. A malicious server could use the cookie name __proto__ so that the attacker-controlled cookie path was written as a property on Object.prototype, or use inherited names such as constructor to modify Object. An empty cookie value could use the removal path to delete an inherited Object.prototype property. Applications using forge.http directly or through forge.xhr are affected; applications that do not use forge.http are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
digitalbazaar forge < 1.4.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-node-forge No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-node-forge No fix yet —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-tensorboard No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling jitsucom-jitsu-console 2.11.0-r42 —
Wolfi rolling kubeflow-centraldashboard 2.0.0-r8 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm node-forge < 1.4.1 1.4.1 GHSA-6wvx-3r32-xmcg

References