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CVE-2025-12816 (GCVE-0-2025-12816)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-25 19:15 – Updated: 2025-11-25 21:04
VLAI
Title
CVE-2025-12816
Summary
An interpretation-conflict (CWE-436) 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.
Severity
8.6 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: Public PoC Automatable: No Technical Impact: Partial
certcc (v2.0.0)
Decision recorded 2025-11-07 15:47 UTC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-25 20:21 UTC
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Digital Bazaar node-forge Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.3.1 (semver)
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Digital Bazaar forge Affected: 0 , ≤ 1.3.1 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was reported by Hunter Wodzenski of Palo Alto Networks
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