UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118781

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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-118781

Summary:

Details: Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used BigInteger.prototype.modInverse(), bnModInverse(), lib/jsbn.js, RSA public exponent e to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge's bundled jsbn implementation entered an infinite loop when BigInteger.prototype.modInverse() received a negative value or modulus. An attacker who could control the RSA public exponent passed to key generation, or a direct modInverse() operand, could block the Node.js event loop at full CPU. Parsed DER, PEM, JWK, PKCS#12, X.509, and TLS values are unsigned and cannot trigger this issue. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.

References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-118781, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118781, https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/e96c47b7f006dec66fb7bb1934e7375498b04a72, https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1, https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-h6cr-wjv9-3cpp