Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting node-forge package, versions <1.3.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (31st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-2430337
- published 20 Mar 2022
- disclosed 20 Mar 2022
- credit Moosa Yahyazadeh
Introduced: 20 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-24773 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade node-forge
to version 1.3.0 or higher.
Overview
node-forge is a JavaScript implementations of network transports, cryptography, ciphers, PKI, message digests, and various utilities.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature due to RSA's PKCS#1 v1.5
signature verification code which does not properly check DigestInfo
for a proper ASN.1
structure. This can lead to successful verification with signatures that contain invalid structures but a valid digest.