Medium severity · published Oct 29, 2026
CVE-2026-118777
Forge: Prototype Pollution in forge.http cookie handling via a malicious Set-Cookie
New
4.8
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Forge (also called node-forge) is a native implementation of Transport Layer Security in JavaScript. Prior to 1.4.1, the forge.http client stored cookie names and paths from Set-Cookie response headers in ordinary JavaScript objects. A malicious server could use the cookie name __proto__ so that the attacker-controlled cookie path was written as a property on Object.prototype, or use inherited names such as constructor to modify Object. An empty cookie value could use the removal path to delete an inherited Object.prototype property. Applications using forge.http directly or through forge.xhr are affected; applications that do not use forge.http are unaffected. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FO
forge · digitalbazaar
< 1.4.1 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118777
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118777
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/commit/797c3f816a22748a96fceebb34eb3a6716853991
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/releases/tag/v1.4.1
github.com
https://github.com/digitalbazaar/forge/security/advisories/GHSA-6wvx-3r32-xmcg
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