High severity · published Oct 29, 2026
CVE-2026-118782
Forge: PKCS#12 MAC forgery and constant-key PBE via zero iteration count
New
7.5
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, node-forge accepted a PKCS#12 MAC or PKCS#12 password-based encryption iteration count of zero or less. pki.pbe.generatePkcs12Key() then returned a constant key independent of the password and salt, allowing crafted PKCS#12 input processed by forge.pkcs12.pkcs12FromAsn1() to bypass password-based integrity checks. Predictable encryption keys and IVs also affected PKCS#12 PBE using pbeWithSHAAnd3-KeyTripleDES-CBC or pbewithSHAAnd40BitRC2-CBC, including shrouded key bags, encrypted SafeContents, and PKCS#8 ENCRYPTED PRIVATE KEY input processed independently by forge.pki.decryptPrivateKeyInfo(). PBES2/PBKDF2-encrypted content is unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FO
forge · digitalbazaar
< 1.4.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118782
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118782
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/d9584aa56824972858366d5187b3d29e46bf3656
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-jc66-7q78-782g
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