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CVE-2022-0122 — node-forge

MEDIUMFix: digitalbazaar/forge@db8016c

CVE-2022-0122 is a medium-severity (CVSS 5.3) Open Redirect vulnerability in node-forge. 1 public exploit reference exists, so weaponization risk is real. A fix is available for node-forge — see the affected versions and patch details below.

Open Redirect in digitalbazaar/forge

Also known asGHSA-8fr3-hfg3-gpgp
Published
Updated
Affected
1 pkg
Patched
1 / 1
Exploits
1 known
Exploitation data as of Oct 12, 2026 · OSV.dev, NVD, FIRST.org (EPSS)

EPSS Exploitation Probability

via FIRST.org ↗
0.8%probability of exploitation in next 30 days
Lower Risk0.00%
Lower risk than most CVEs57th percentile — riskier than 57% of all scored CVEsHighest risk
0.00%0.45%0.89%1.34%0.2%0.8%Apr 26Aug 26Oct 26

Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.

How urgent is this, really

CVE-2022-0122 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). Outside the shaded patch-first corner.

Where this sits among everything scored

Of 386,684 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the < 10% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.

Real-World Exposure

1 pkg affected

How broadly this vulnerability is actually deployed: weekly install volume shows current usage, and reverse-dependency count shows how many other packages break if it stays unpatched.

4Kother npm packages depend on this — each one inherits the vulnerability until it's patched upstream
node-forgenpm
40.2Mdownloads / week

Description

parseUrl functionality in node-forge mishandles certain uses of backslash such as https:/\/\/\ and interprets the URI as a relative path.

Affected Packages

1 total 1 fixed
EcosystemPackageVulnerable rangeFix
📦npmnode-forgeall versions1.0.0npm install node-forge@1.0.0

Affected Products

1 product · 1 configurations
Application
forgedigitalbazaar
< 1.0.0
range
Exploits & PoCs
1

Research use only. For defensive security, authorized penetration testing, and academic research only. Never execute exploit code against systems without explicit written authorization.

forge is vulnerable to URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

huntr.devNVDJan 2022

Detection & mitigation playbook

Open-source dependency

  1. Detect

    Scan your dependency tree (package-lock.json, pnpm-lock.yaml, requirements.txt, go.sum, etc.) for node-forge, including transitive dependencies — a direct dependency you never call can still pull in a vulnerable version.

  2. Fix

    Update node-forge to 1.0.0 or later, then make sure no transitive (indirect) dependency still pins the vulnerable range — O3 confirms CVE-2022-0122 is resolved across your whole dependency graph.

  3. Workarounds

    Stop reflecting attacker-controlled destinations: resolve every redirect target against an allowlist of paths or hosts you own, prefer a server-side key over a full URL in the request, and reject absolute URLs entirely where the flow only ever needs a relative one.

Frequently Asked Questions

parseUrl functionality in node-forge mishandles certain uses of backslash such as `https:/\/\/\` and interprets the URI as a relative path.
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CVE-2022-0122: node-forge — Fixed in 1.0.0