CVE-2026-118780
Received
Received - Intake
Certificate Chain Verification Flaw in node-forge
Vulnerability report for CVE-2026-118780, including description, CVSS score, EPSS score, affected products, exploitability, helpful resources, and attack-flow context.
Publication date: 2026-10-29
Last updated on: 2026-10-29
Assigner: GitHub, Inc.
Description
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 pki.verifyCertificateChain(), pki.createCaStore(), duplicate subject names to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge modified the CA store while trying certificates that shared a subject name during pki.verifyCertificateChain(). A failed chain verification could permanently remove trusted CA certificates from the store, causing later valid chains to fail and creating a persistent availability impact for applications that reused the store. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| digitalbazaar | forge | < 1.4.1 |
Helpful Resources
Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-295 | The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. |
| CWE-471 | The product does not properly protect an assumed-immutable element from being modified by an attacker. |
