7.5

CVE-2026-119187: Forge: Denial of service in TLS record processing via call stack exhaustion

Analyzed
AliasesGHSA-hqq3-7jhf-c5jxUBUNTU-CVE-2026-119187CGA-p6w9-hxh8-f945
Published 29-10-2026Last modified 29-10-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-119187 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in digitalbazaar forge. EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Priority
Prioritisepublic exploit

Public exploit (GitHub, Date unknown)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.41%
0%100%
Low · Change unavailable
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits1github

Timeline

  1. 29-10-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.

Description

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(), TLS record processing, process() to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge processed received TLS records recursively, consuming one JavaScript stack frame per record in a single input chunk. A remote peer could send thousands of small records together and exhaust the call stack, causing an uncaught exception and denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.41%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

36%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

Change unavailable

Change unavailable

30-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

1 found
  • githubUnverified

    Forge

    Maturity: poc

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard20 products
  • arangodb-3.11All versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.11.14.6-r4
  • arangodb-3.12All versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.12.13-r1
  • dotstatsuite-supercoreAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 3.1.0_git20261022-r4
  • gitlab-rails-ce-18.10All versions (No fix recorded)
  • gitlab-rails-ce-18.8All versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi2 products
  • jitsucom-jitsu-consoleAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.11.0-r42
  • kubeflow-centraldashboardAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 2.0.0-r8
Digitalbazaar1 product
Npm1 product
  • node-forge< 1.4.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-node-forgeAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 25 products

References

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