CVE-2026-33894 is a high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) affecting Forge (node-forge) versions prior to 1.4.0, allowing attackers to forge RSASSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signatures. This flaw, exploitable over the network with low complexity, enables Bleichenbacher style forgery by manipulating ASN.1 structures or insufficient padding, resulting in a high integrity impact. While the vulnerability has a very low EPSS score and some community mentions, there is currently no evidence of active exploitation, nor are public exploit modules available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:digitalbazaar:forge:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.