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node-forge 1.4.0 vulnerability

node-forge 1.4.0 has 1 known vulnerability (1 rated high or critical), and no fixed version has been released yet.

npm (opens in a new tab) describes it as “JavaScript implementations of network transports, cryptography, ciphers, PKI, message digests, and various utilities.”

Known vulnerabilities
1
1 rated high or critical
Released
Mar 24, 2026
The latest release
Downloads last week
25.1M
63% of node-forge downloads
Licence
(BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0)
OpenSSF Scorecard
5/10
digitalbazaar/forge (opens in a new tab)
Dependencies
None
Resolved by deps.dev

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Findings

Every advisory for node-forge 1.4.0

Known exploited first (CISA KEV), then by how likely they are to be exploited (FIRST EPSS), then by severity. Each id links to its OSV.dev record.

  1. CriticalCVE-2026-33894 on OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)CVE-2026-85393EPSS: top 63%

    node-forge RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification accepts extra nested DigestAlgorithm elements

    No fixed version listed yet. Published Sep 3, 2026.

Who is still on a vulnerable node-forge

100% of last week’s 40M node-forge downloads went to versions with known vulnerabilities.

From npm’s per-version download counts for the last 7 days, each version checked against OSV.dev. The versions checked cover over 99% of downloads.

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How this page is checked

StackPrism asks OSV.dev which advisories affect exactly node-forge 1.4.0, merges duplicates filed under several ids, and ranks them with CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list and FIRST EPSS. Release dates and deprecation come from deps.dev and npm. No AI writes this page: every sentence comes from that data, refreshed every few hours.

Last checked against npm, OSV.dev, deps.dev, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS.