CVE-2025-12816highCWE-436

CVE-2025-12816: high-severity vulnerability in Digital Bazaar node-forge

CVE-2025-12816

Published 25 Nov 2025

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.6epss 0.6%

An interpretation-conflict (CWE-436) vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and earlier enables unauthenticated attackers to craft ASN.1 structures to desynchronize schema validations, yielding a semantic divergence that may bypass downstream cryptographic verifications and security decisions.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

Digital Bazaar · forge Digital Bazaar · node-forge

References

https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/pull/1124 https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-5gfm-wpxj-wjgq https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521113 https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521113 https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-forge