Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-12816

HighPublic PoC

Published: 25 November 2025

Published
25 November 2025
Modified
02 January 2026
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 8.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0007 21.8th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2025-12816 is a high-severity Interpretation Conflict (CWE-436) vulnerability in Digitalbazaar Forge. Its CVSS base score is 8.6 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 21.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)
CWE-436

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

digitalbazaar
forge
≤ 1.3.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References