Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature Affecting node-forge package, versions <1.3.0
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- published 20 Mar 2022
- disclosed 20 Mar 2022
- credit Moosa Yahyazadeh
Introduced: 20 Mar 2022
CVE-2022-24771 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 RSAs PKCS#1` v1.5 signature verification code which 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.