CVE-2025-12816

State: Published
Severity: 8.6 High
Published: Nov 25, 2025
Updated: Nov 25, 2025
Reserved: Nov 6, 2025

Description

An interpretation-conflict (CWE-436) vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and earlier enables unauthenticated attackers to craft ASN.1 structures to desynchronize schema validations, yielding a semantic divergence that may bypass downstream cryptographic verifications and security decisions.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.6 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict

Affected Products

Product	Versions
node-forgeDigital Bazaar	1.3.1 and earlierAffected
forgeDigital Bazaar	1.3.1 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-forge
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/pull/1124
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge
CERT/CC Vulnerability Noticethird-party-advisory
Github Security Advisorythird-party-advisory
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521113

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