{"id":"EM-20261030-L442","url":"https://cyber.eventmonitor.net/incident/EM-20261030-L442/","type":"cve","title":"Forge Vulnerability (CVE-2026-118782)","subtitle":"CVE-2026-118782","subject":"CVE-2026-118782","status":"Developing","severity":"high","affected":[],"headline":null,"born":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","firstSignal":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983Z","lastSignal":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","updated":"2026-11-04T14:43:58.877Z","revision":1,"life":[{"status":"Born","at":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","why":"second independent source: C26 GitHub Advisory Database"},{"status":"Developing","at":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","why":"signals keep joining"}],"changeLog":[{"at":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983Z","what":"First signal: C6 NVD CVE API 2.0"},{"at":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","what":"Born: second source, C26 GitHub Advisory Database. Page EM-20261030-L442 created."}],"stages":[{"name":"Disclosed","at":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983Z","detail":"C6 NVD published"},{"name":"Scored","at":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983Z","detail":"CVSS 7.5 · EPSS 0.1%"},{"name":"Exploited","at":null,"detail":"No exploitation reported"},{"name":"Advisories","at":null,"detail":"None yet"},{"name":"Vendor Response","at":null,"detail":"None in sources yet"},{"name":"Resolved","at":null,"detail":"After 14 quiet days"}],"signals":[{"at":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983Z","source":"C6","sourceName":"NVD CVE API 2.0","role":"Database","severity":3,"title":"CVE-2026-118782 (CVSS 7.5)","text":"Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, node-forge accepted a PKCS#12 MAC or PKCS#12 password-based encryption iteration count of zero or less. pki.pbe.generatePkcs12Key() then returned a constant key independent of the password and salt, allowing crafted PKCS#12 input processed by forge.pkcs12.pkcs12FromAsn1() to bypass password-based integrity checks. Predictable encryption keys and IVs also affected PKCS#12 PBE using pbeWithSHAAnd3-KeyTripleDES-CBC or pbewithSHAAnd40BitRC2-CBC, including shrouded key bags, encrypte","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118782"},{"at":"2026-10-30T23:02:05.000Z","source":"C26","sourceName":"GitHub Advisory Database","role":"Database","severity":3,"title":"GHSA-jc66-7q78-782g / CVE-2026-118782: Forge: PKCS#12 MAC forgery and constant-key PBE via zero iteration count","text":"npm:node-forge","url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jc66-7q78-782g"}],"crowd":[],"reference":{"nvd":{"published":"2026-10-29T19:17:20.983","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","desc":"Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, node-forge accepted a PKCS#12 MAC or PKCS#12 password-based encryption iteration count of zero or less. pki.pbe.generatePkcs12Key() then returned a constant key independent of the pas","product":"","seen":1793803438877},"kev":null,"epss":{"epss":0.00125,"pct":0.02231,"at":1793803438877},"p0":false},"mergedInto":null,"publisher":"Event Monitor Cyber"}