{"id":225984,"date":"2025-11-27T00:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/popular-forge-library-gets-fix-for-signature-verification-bypass-flaw"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:21:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:21:38","slug":"popular-forge-library-gets-fix-for-signature-verification-bypass-flaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/popular-forge-library-gets-fix-for-signature-verification-bypass-flaw","title":{"rendered":"Popular Forge library gets fix for signature verification bypass flaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/popular-forge-library-gets-fix-for-signature-verification-bypass-flaw.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A vulnerability in the \u2018node-forge\u2019 package, a popular JavaScript cryptography library, could be exploited to bypass signature verifications by crafting data that appears valid.<\/p>\n<p>The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025\u201312816 and received a high severity rating. It arises from the library\u2019s ASN.1 validation mechanism, which allows malformed data to pass checks even when it is cryptographically invalid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn interpretation-conflict vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and earlier enables unauthenticated attackers to craft ASN.1 structures to desynchronize schema validations, yielding a semantic divergence that may bypass downstream cryptographic verifications and security decisions,\u201d reads the flaw\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nvd.nist.gov\/vuln\/detail\/CVE-2025-12816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">description<\/a> in the National Vulnerabilities Database (NVD).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vulnerability in the \u2018node-forge\u2019 package, a popular JavaScript cryptography library, could be exploited to bypass signature verifications by crafting data that appears valid. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2025\u201312816 and received a high severity rating. It arises from the library\u2019s ASN.1 validation mechanism, which allows malformed data to pass checks even when it is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1625,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encryption","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}