CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-66031

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Nov 26, 2025 | Modified: Dec 06, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. An Uncontrolled Recursion vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft deep ASN.1 structures that trigger unbounded recursive parsing. This leads to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via stack exhaustion when parsing untrusted DER inputs. This issue has been patched in version 1.3.2.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Forge Digitalbazaar * 1.3.2 (excluding)
Red Hat Developer Hub 1.8 RedHat rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9:sha256:27d08ffa1bc6a2270b5eab59aedaf866cf68ccb902503c2e58e2e2337a1236b9 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel8:sha256:7ac05f2197eeba5533ad6ad6360e817d57de2f6893c260c20a7484945fceda92 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.6 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8:sha256:29e6ecab0c0f10c17b752d30978dbda4892b3cf471344faa182ac0b86ee76928 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9:sha256:7e2b22107128f05f40773095ae2b01ae6c65df0539677ea0d5b8f90c7f907f98 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.0 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9:sha256:c012e5fdf21c90d8d504164ddec9b294c5c347df078049fcd4e20a9ebe2f76cc *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.1 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9:sha256:928ed23934eae4e9c16ac23eaa828cc09f2d0ae539f330454ad6222e8cec3250 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.1 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9:sha256:ef0ddf23bae41b1c9aad0b05c90aecc2a21b45e125013a139e705c27285907c5 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-ossmc-rhel9:sha256:94c2091f1a4fad7ec534e36a2ae0f791e1519cc8f74b294c75fa70745503c619 *
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3.2 RedHat openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9:sha256:078340c685503fbb211a66d8016d795a647881e735f5d9f9e89a39e64f21b5cd *

Potential Mitigations

References