CVE-2026-119188 Forge: Denial of service in TLS record processing via a record interleaved with a fragmented handshake message
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-119188?
CVE-2026-119188 is a high-severity vulnerability in digitalbazaar forge, published on 29 Oct 2026.
Official description
Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the affected implementation used forge.tls.createConnection(), fragmented handshake message, interleaved record to process the relevant input or security decision. node-forge continued processing after a TLS record of another content type interrupted a fragmented handshake message. A remote peer could trigger an uncaught TypeError in process(), causing the connection or hosting process to fail. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-119188?
How do I fix CVE-2026-119188?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-119188 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-119188 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-119188 in the wild and no public exploit code.