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SCA: security update for node-forge (GHSA-5cwg-6vw7-rj6p)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 478057

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, node-forge did not validate the AES-GCM tagLength option passed to start() during decryption
 through forge.cipher.createDecipher(). When an application derived tagLength from received data or used an
 unset or zero-like configuration value, a value that converted to zero together with an empty or missing
 authentication tag caused the calculated and supplied tags to compare as empty, so decipher.finish()
 accepted unauthenticated ciphertext. Applications that omit tagLength to use the 128-bit default or pass a
 fixed valid tag length are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1. (CVE-2026-119186)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cwg-6vw7-rj6p

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 478057

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:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-119186

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:H/A:N

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-2026-119186