Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting node-forge package, versions <1.4.1
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-22113974
- published1 Nov 2026
- disclosed26 Oct 2026
- creditZiyue Wang, Chenchen, Strick Sheng, Liyi Zhou, Maurice Ng
Introduced: 26 Oct 2026
NewCVE-2026-119187 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade node-forge to version 1.4.1 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 in the TLS record processing in lib/tls.js, where connection.process() and the per-record-type handlers it dispatches through ctTable (tls.handleHeartbeat, tls.handleApplicationData, tls.handleHandshake, tls.handleHelloRequest) re-enter process() for each record. An attacker can exhaust the call stack and terminate the peer's Node.js process by sending many small TLS records in a single chunk, roughly 2,300 eight-byte records in under 20 KB on Node.js 24, since each record adds a stack frame rather than being handled in a loop. This affects any forge.tls connection in server or client mode, including those from wrapSocket, forge.http, and forge.xhr, needs no handshake because heartbeat records are processed first, and in a browser is confined to the attacked connection while a Node.js process crash drops every connection it serves.