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SCA: security update for node-forge (GHSA-525v-9gp9-w22h)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 478063

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior
 to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used forge.tls.createConnection(), c.session.serverCertificate, RSA
 key exchange to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge's TLS client checked the wrong
 property when deciding whether a server certificate was missing. A malicious TLS server or on-path peer
 could omit the Certificate message and reach code that dereferenced the absent certificate, causing an
 uncaught exception and terminating the connection or process. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
 (CVE-2026-118778)

Solution

Update the node-forge library and its related packages to version 1.4.1 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-525v-9gp9-w22h

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 478063

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/31/2026

Updated: 10/31/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-118778

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-118778

cwe: CWE-476