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SCA: security update for node-forge (GHSA-hqq3-7jhf-c5jx)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 478066

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(), TLS record processing, process()
 to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge processed received TLS records recursively,
 consuming one JavaScript stack frame per record in a single input chunk. A remote peer could send
 thousands of small records together and exhaust the call stack, causing an uncaught exception and denial
 of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1. (CVE-2026-119187)

Solution

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

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hqq3-7jhf-c5jx

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 478066

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: 23.72

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-119187

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/29/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-119187

cwe: CWE-674