Bug 2417097 (CVE-2025-12816)

Summary: CVE-2025-12816 node-forge: node-forge: Interpretation conflict vulnerability allows bypassing cryptographic verifications
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A flaw was found in node-forge. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass downstream cryptographic verifications and security decisions via crafting ASN.1 (Abstract Syntax Notation One) structures to desynchronize schema validations, yielding a semantic divergence.
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Bug Depends On: 2421510, 2421511, 2421515, 2421516, 2421508, 2421509, 2421512, 2421513, 2421514, 2421517, 2421585    
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-11-25 20:01:33 UTC
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.