CVE-2025-12816 (GCVE-0-2025-12816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-25 19:15 – Updated: 2025-11-25 21:04
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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)
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
- CWE-436 Interpretation Conflict
- CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict
Assigner
References
6 references
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Digital Bazaar | node-forge |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 1.3.1
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| Digital Bazaar | forge |
Affected:
0 , ≤ 1.3.1
(semver)
|
guessed |
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