GHSA-x4jg-mjrx-434gHighCVSS 7.5
Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Impact
RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code does not check for tailing garbage bytes after decoding a DigestInfo ASN.1 structure. This can allow padding bytes to be removed and garbage data added to forge a signature when a low public exponent is being used.
Patches
The issue has been addressed in node-forge 1.3.0.
References
For more information, please see "Bleichenbacher's RSA signature forgery based on implementation error" by Hal Finney.
For more information
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🎯 Affected products1
- npm/node-forge:< 1.3.0
🔗 References (5)
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-x4jg-mjrx-434g
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24772
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/3f0b49a0573ef1bb7af7f5673c0cfebf00424df1
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/bb822c02df0b61211836472e29b9790cc541cdb2
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x4jg-mjrx-434g