Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting node-forge package, versions <1.3.2
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- published27 Nov 2025
- disclosed26 Nov 2025
- creditwodzen
Introduced: 26 Nov 2025
NewCVE-2025-66031 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade node-forge to version 1.3.2 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 Uncontrolled Recursion via the fromDer function in asn1.js, which lacks recursion depth. An attacker can cause stack exhaustion and disrupt service availability by submitting specially crafted, deeply nested DER-encoded ASN.1 data.