Package vulnerability, severity high

node-forge: Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode)

Published October 30, 2026, updated October 31, 2026

Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode). Source: GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x (CVE-2026-118779).

What's affected

• node-forge (npm)<1.4.1

What to do

1. Upgrade node-forge to 1.4.1 or later.

Check whether you were affected

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/pharon:check-incident ghsa-7wch-p9px-956x

References

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118779
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/412345db583cd28a9d23636d0d93e9f751b935f3
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge
• https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1

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