Answer in brief
CVE-2026-118779 records a High severity (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode). The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps digitalbazaar/forge (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 7.5. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
Factual feed record only; HOL analysis is not approved for indexing. Read the methodology.
The current feed maps digitalbazaar/forge (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| digitalbazaar/forgegeneric | <1.4.1 | 1.4.1 |
Published upstream
Oct 29, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Oct 29, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Oct 29, 2026
Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used pem.decode(), lib/pem.js, missing END line to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge used polynomial-time regular expressions in pem.decode(), including when searching for a matching END line and parsing encapsulated headers. An unauthenticated attacker able to supply PEM input to any high-level parser could consume excessive CPU with a long malformed message and cause denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
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