CVE-2026-33894 PUBLISHED

Forge has signature forgery in RSA-PKCS due to ASN.1 extra field

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 24.03.2026 Published: 27.03.2026 Updated: 27.03.2026

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.4.0, RSASSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification accepts forged signatures for low public exponent keys (e=3). Attackers can forge signatures by stuffing “garbage” bytes within the ASN structure in order to construct a signature that passes verification, enabling Bleichenbacher style forgery. This issue is similar to CVE-2022-24771, but adds bytes in an addition field within the ASN structure, rather than outside of it. Additionally, forge does not validate that signatures include a minimum of 8 bytes of padding as defined by the specification, providing attackers additional space to construct Bleichenbacher forgeries. Version 1.4.0 patches the issue.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor digitalbazaar
Product forge
Versions
  • Version < 1.4.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-347: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature CWE
  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE