# CVE-2026-33894: Forge has signature forgery in RSA-PKCS due to ASN.1 extra field

- Also known as: GHSA-86W9-CPQP-85RV, GHSA-PPP5-5V6C-4JWP
- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.0
- Published: 2026-03-27 · Updated: 2026-09-10

## Affected

- digitalbazaar forge: fixed in 1.4.0
- node-forge (npm): through 1.4.0
- node-forge (npm): fixed in 1.4.0

## Description

Forge (also called `node-forge`) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to version 1.4.0, RSASSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification accepts forged signatures for low public exponent keys (e=3). Attackers can forge signatures by stuffing “garbage” bytes within the ASN structure in order to construct a signature that passes verification, enabling Bleichenbacher style forgery. This issue is similar to CVE-2022-24771, but adds bytes in an addition field within the ASN structure, rather than outside of it. Additionally, forge does not validate that signatures include a minimum of 8 bytes of padding as defined by the specification, providing attackers additional space to construct Bleichenbacher forgeries. Version 1.4.0 patches the issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on digitalbazaar forge, node-forge, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.0) per the references below.
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## Related

- [CVE-2026-85393](https://cve.now/CVE-2026-85393.md)
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## References

- https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-ppp5-5v6c-4jwp
- https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2313#section-8
- https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/5rnE9ZRN1AokBVj3VqblGlP63QE
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8017.html

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