digitalbazaar/forge · Security

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in `node-forge`

GHSA ID
GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr
CVE ID
CVE-2022-24773
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v3
5.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

Impact

RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code is not properly checking DigestInfo for a proper ASN.1 structure. This can lead to successful verification with signatures that contain invalid structures but a valid digest.

Patches

The issue has been addressed in node-forge 1.3.0.

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