🛡️ CVE-2025-12816 on Debian — node-node-forge

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
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CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2025-12816 as tracked by Debian, for the package node-node-forge. No fixed version has been recorded for this distribution yet.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Weakness class

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-12816 is classified as CWE-436: Interpretation Conflict. Two components parse the same data differently, so a check in one is bypassed in the other.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2025-12816 is recorded against 1 package.

  • node-node-forge

Timeline and source

Published on 25 November 2025 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2025-12816 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-11-25
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
node-node-forge — —

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