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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-118779 EUVD-2026-113337GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x

Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode)

Published Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 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 affected implementation used pem.decode(), lib/pem.js, missing END line to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge used polynomial-time regular expressions in pem.decode(), including when searching for a matching END line and parsing encapsulated headers. An unauthenticated attacker able to supply PEM input to any high-level parser could consume excessive CPU with a long malformed message and cause denial of service. 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-7wch-p9px-956x

References