CVE-2026-85393

HIGH

7.5CVSS v3

—CVSS v2

0.20% EPSS (exploit probability)

CWE-347CWE

Description

node-forge through 1.4.0 fails to validate element count in nested DigestAlgorithm sequences during RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification. Attackers can embed garbage bytes inside the DigestAlgorithm sequence to forge valid signatures for arbitrary messages using low-exponent RSA keys. This is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-33894.

CVSS v3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected routers (0)

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External references

NIST NVD
MITRE CVE