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Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in `node-forge`

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 17, 2022 in digitalbazaar/forge • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

npm node-forge (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.3.0

Patched versions

1.3.0

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.

For more information

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References

@davidlehn davidlehn published to digitalbazaar/forge Mar 17, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 18, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 18, 2022
Reviewed Mar 18, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate
5.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-24773

GHSA ID

GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr

Source code

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