7.5

CVE-2022-24771: digitalbazaar forge

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2022-24771DEBIAN-CVE-2022-24771GHSA-cfm4-qjh2-4765
Published 18-03-2022Last modified 23-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-24771 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in digitalbazaar forge. EPSS estimates a 0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 55.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.78%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 18-03-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 23-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.3.0, RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code is lenient in checking the digest algorithm structure. This can allow a crafted structure that steals padding bytes and uses unchecked portion of the PKCS#1 encoded message to forge a signature when a low public exponent is being used. The issue has been addressed in `node-forge` version 1.3.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.78%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

55%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.78% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.78%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • node-node-forge< 0.10.0~dfsg-3+deb11u1
Digitalbazaar1 product
Npm1 product
  • node-forge< 1.3.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-node-forgeAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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