CVE-2026-118779: Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode)
digitalbazaar · forge
Affected: digitalbazaar forge · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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Higher than 52% of scored CVEs
DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- digitalbazaar · forge< 1.4.1
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- Exploitation
- Unlikely (under 1%). EPSS under 1%, or no score yet.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Vendor
- digitalbazaar
- Published
- October 2026
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