CVE-2026-118778

MEDIUM 5.9

Forge: TLS client crash when the server sends no certificate

CVSS Score

5.9

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used forge.tls.createConnection(), c.session.serverCertificate, RSA key exchange to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge's TLS client checked the wrong property when deciding whether a server certificate was missing. A malicious TLS server or on-path peer could omit the Certificate message and reach code that dereferenced the absent certificate, causing an uncaught exception and terminating the connection or process. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

CWE	CWE-476
Vendor	digitalbazaar
Product	forge
Published	Oct 29, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Affected Versions

digitalbazaar / forge

< 1.4.1

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

github.com: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-525v-9gp9-w22h github.com: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/7be9fbd40df2e2f15f29fea2846b1c87d58f6888 github.com: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1