Forge: Incomplete PKCS#7 padding validation in AES/DES CBC and ECB decryption (digitalbazaar forge)

CVE-2026-118776
LOW 3.7

At a glance

Source
NVD
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Received

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 decipher.finish(), CBC and ECB modes, PKCS#7 padding to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge validated only the final byte of PKCS#7 padding during CBC and ECB decryption and accepted zero, oversized, or mismatched padding bytes. Malformed ciphertext could consequently be accepted and up to four plaintext blocks could be silently removed, causing an integrity failure in applications that treated successful decryption as proof of valid padding. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-20 β€” Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-354 β€” Improper Validation of Integrity Check Value

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1LOW 3.7CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD Β· security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

Affected products

ProductVersions
digitalbazaar Β· forgeaffected < 1.4.1

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
ENISA EUVDENISA β€” reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain β€” this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD