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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2026-119189 EUVD-2026-113366GHSA-h46v-rmh6-fq4f

Forge: X.509 pathLenConstraint not enforced by verifyCertificateChain() for CA certificates without keyUsage

Published Oct 29, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 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, node-forge enforced an X.509 CA certificate's basicConstraints.pathLenConstraint only when that certificate also carried a keyUsage extension. Exploitation requires a path-length-constrained CA without keyUsage that chains to a root trusted by the application, and an attacker who holds that CA's private key or obtains a subordinate CA certificate from it. The attacker could then construct a chain exceeding the declared path length that still passed pki.verifyCertificateChain(). Public web PKI CA certificates normally include keyUsage; private PKIs with CA certificates created without it are more likely to be affected. 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 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm node-forge < 1.4.1 1.4.1 GHSA-h46v-rmh6-fq4f

References