# CVE-2026-118774: Forge: Certificate signature verified with the issuer's RSA signature scheme

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-113331, GHSA-9WG5-MJ3P-V49Q
- Severity: CVSS 3.7 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.1
- Published: 2026-10-29 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Summary

Forge (node-forge), a JavaScript implementation of Transport Layer Security, is affected. An attacker could get a certificate accepted with a different signature scheme than the one it declares, which could bypass policies that require a specific signature scheme, though it does not allow forging certificate identity.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- digitalbazaar forge: fixed in 1.4.1

## Description

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used certificate.verify(child), _verifySignature(), lib/x509.js to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge selected RSA padding and RSASSA-PSS parameters from the issuer certificate rather than the child certificate being verified. A child labeled as RSASSA-PSS could therefore be accepted with a PKCS#1 v1.5 signature when the issuer used PKCS#1 v1.5. The signature still had to be produced with the trusted issuer's private key, so this did not permit certificate identity forgery, but it could bypass policies that require a declared signature scheme. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on digitalbazaar forge, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-9wg5-mj3p-v49q
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/c7f42614d5166a77ddf11ce174b2601b14f6956b
- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1

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