CVE-2026-119191 Forge - Denial of Service

Forge (node-forge) < 1.4.1 contains a denial of service caused by excessive recursion and quadratic memory consumption in asn1.fromDer() BIT STRING decoding, letting attackers cause high CPU and memory use, exploit requires crafted DER input.

CVSS base score 7.5 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
Proof of concept available
Authentication
Not required
EPSS
0.43% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Denial of Service
Impact
Denial Of Service
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
29 October 2026
Updated
31 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-400

Vendor fix

Update to version 1.4.1 or later.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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