Vulnerability record · CVE-2025-12816 · published 25 November 2025

CVE-2025-12816: Digitalbazaar forge interpretation conflict vulnerability

Digitalbazaar · Forge

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.

8.6 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.74% · top 47.1% CWE-436 · Interpretation conflict

8.6CVSS 3.1 base score

0.74%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days

NoNot in CISA KEV

1Affected product versions listed by NVD

6References, 1 tagged exploit

17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

Forge Digitalbazaar

References

Link	Tags
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge	Product
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/pull/1124	Issue TrackingPatch
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-5gfm-wpxj-wjgq	ExploitVendor Advisory
https://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521113	Third Party Advisory
https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-forge	Product
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/521113	Third Party Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2025-12816), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.