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1.3.1 - 2022-03-29
Fixes
- RFC 3447 and RFC 8017 allow for optional
DigestAlgorithm
NULL
parameters
for sha*
algorithms and require NULL
paramters for md2
and md5
algorithms.
1.3.0 - 2022-03-17
Security
- Three RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification issues were reported by Moosa
Yahyazadeh (moosa-yahyazadeh@uiowa.edu).
- HIGH: Leniency in checking
digestAlgorithm
structure can lead to
signature forgery. - HIGH: Failing to check tailing garbage bytes can lead to signature
forgery.
- MEDIUM: Leniency in checking type octet.
DigestInfo
is not properly checked for proper ASN.1 structure. This can
lead to successful verification with signatures that contain invalid
structures but a valid digest.- CVE ID: CVE-2022-24773
- GHSA ID: GHSA-2r2c-g63r-vccr
Fixed
- [asn1] Add fallback to pretty print invalid UTF8 data.
- [asn1]
fromDer
is now more strict and will default to ensuring all input
bytes are parsed or throw an error. A new option parseAllBytes
can disable
this behavior.- NOTE: The previous behavior is being changed since it can lead to
security issues with crafted inputs. It is possible that code doing custom
DER parsing may need to adapt to this new behavior and optional flag.
- [rsa] Add and use a validator to check for proper structure of parsed ASN.1
RSASSA-PKCS-v1_5
DigestInfo
data. Additionally check that the hash
algorithm identifier is a known value from RFC 8017
PKCS1-v1-5DigestAlgorithms
. An invalid DigestInfo
or algorithm identifier
will now throw an error.- NOTE: The previous lenient behavior is being changed to be more strict
since it could lead to security issues with crafted inputs. It is possible
that code may have to handle the errors from these stricter checks.
Added
- [oid] Added missing RFC 8017 PKCS1-v1-5DigestAlgorithms algorithm
identifiers:
1.2.840.113549.2.2
/ md2
2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.4
/ sha224
2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.5
/ sha512-224
2.16.840.1.101.3.4.2.6
/ sha512-256
1.2.1 - 2022-01-11
Fixed
- [tests]: Load entire module to improve top-level testing and coverage
reporting.
- [log]: Refactor logging setup to avoid use of
URLSearchParams
.
1.2.0 - 2022-01-07
Fixed
- [x509] 'Expected' and 'Actual' issuers were backwards in verification failure
message.
Added
- [oid,x509]: Added OID
1.3.14.3.2.29 / sha1WithRSASignature
for sha1 with
RSA. Considered a deprecated equivalent to 1.2.840.113549.1.1.5 /
sha1WithRSAEncryption
. See discussion and
links.
Changed
- [x509]: Reduce duplicate code. Add helper function to create a signature
digest given an signature algorithm OID. Add helper function to verify
signatures.
1.1.0 - 2022-01-06
Fixed
- [x509]: Correctly compute certificate issuer and subject hashes to match
behavior of openssl.
- [pem]: Accept certificate requests with "NEW" in the label. "BEGIN NEW
CERTIFICATE REQUEST" handled as "BEGIN CERTIFICATE REQUEST".
1.0.0 - 2022-01-04
Notes
- 1.0.0!
- This project is over a decade old! Time for a 1.0.0 release.
- The URL related changes may expose bugs in some of the networking related
code (unrelated to the much wider used cryptography code). The automated and
manual test coverage for this code is weak at best. Issues or patches to
update the code or tests would be appreciated.
Removed
- SECURITY, BREAKING: Remove
forge.debug
API. The API has the
potential for prototype pollution. This API was only briefly used by the
maintainers for internal project debug purposes and was never intended to be
used with untrusted user inputs. This API was not documented or advertised
and is being removed rather than fixed. - SECURITY, BREAKING: Remove
forge.util.parseUrl()
(and
forge.http.parseUrl
alias) and use the WHATWG URL
Standard. URL
is supported by modern browers
and modern Node.js. This change is needed to address URL parsing security
issues. If forge.util.parseUrl()
is used directly or through forge.xhr
or
forge.http
APIs, and support is needed for environments without URL
support, then a polyfill must be used. - BREAKING: Remove
forge.task
API. This API was never used, documented,
or advertised by the maintainers. If anyone was using this API and wishes to
continue development it in other project, please let the maintainers know.
Due to use in the test suite, a modified version is located in
tests/support/
. - BREAKING: Remove
forge.util.makeLink
, forge.util.makeRequest
,
forge.util.parseFragment
, forge.util.getQueryVariables
. Replace with
URL
, URLSearchParams
, and custom code as needed.
Changed
- BREAKING: Increase supported Node.js version to 6.13.0 for URL support.
- BREAKING: Renamed
master
branch to main
. - BREAKING: Release process updated to use tooling that prefixes versions
with
v
. Other tools, scripts, or scanners may need to adapt. - BREAKING: Remove docs related to Bower and
forge-dist. Install using
another method.
Added
- OIDs for
surname
, title
, and givenName
.
Fixed
- BREAKING: OID 2.5.4.5 name fixed from
serialName
to serialNumber
.
Depending on how applications used this id to name association it could cause
compatibility issues.
0.10.0 - 2020-09-01
Changed
- BREAKING: Node.js 4 no longer supported. The code may still work, and
non-invasive patches to keep it working will be considered. However, more
modern tools no longer support old Node.js versions making testing difficult.
Removed
- BREAKING: Remove
util.getPath
, util.setPath
, and util.deletePath
.
util.setPath
had a potential prototype pollution security issue when used
with unsafe inputs. These functions are not used by forge
itself. They date
from an early time when forge
was targeted at providing general helper
functions. The library direction changed to be more focused on cryptography.
Many other excellent libraries are more suitable for general utilities. If
you need a replacement for these functions, consider get
, set
, and unset
from lodash. But also consider the potential similar
security issues with those APIs.
0.9.2 - 2020-09-01
Changed
- Added
util.setPath
security note to function docs and to README.
Notes
- SECURITY: The
util.setPath
function has the potential to cause
prototype pollution if used with unsafe input.- This function is not used internally by
forge
. - The rest of the library is unaffected by this issue.
- Do not use unsafe input with this function.
- Usage with known input should function as expected. (Including input
intentionally using potentially problematic keys.)
- No code changes will be made to address this issue in 0.9.x. The current
behavior could be considered a feature rather than a security issue.
0.10.0 will be released that removes
util.getPath
and util.setPath
.
Consider get
and set
from lodash if you need
replacements. But also consider the potential similar security issues with
those APIs. - https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-NODEFORGE-598677
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-7720
0.9.1 - 2019-09-26
Fixed
- Ensure DES-CBC given IV is long enough for block size.
0.9.0 - 2019-09-04
Added
- Add ed25519.publicKeyFromAsn1 and ed25519.privateKeyFromAsn1 APIs.
- A few OIDs used in EV certs.
Fixed
- Improve ed25519 NativeBuffer check.
0.8.5 - 2019-06-18
Fixed
0.8.4 - 2019-05-22
Changed
- Replace all instances of Node.js
new Buffer
with Buffer.from
and Buffer.alloc
.
0.8.3 - 2019-05-15
Fixed
- Use basic character set for code.
0.8.2 - 2019-03-18
Fixed
- Fix tag calculation when continuing an AES-GCM block.
Changed
0.8.1 - 2019-02-23
Fixed
- Fix off-by-1 bug with kem random generation.
0.8.0 - 2019-01-31
Fixed
- Handle creation of certificates with
notBefore
and notAfter
dates less
than Jan 1, 1950 or greater than or equal to Jan 1, 2050.
Added
- Add OID 2.5.4.13 "description".
- Add OID 2.16.840.1.113730.1.13 "nsComment".
- Also handle extension when creating a certificate.
pki.verifyCertificateChain
:- Add
validityCheckDate
option to allow checking the certificate validity
period against an arbitrary Date
or null
for no check at all. The
current date is used by default.
tls.createConnection
:- Add
verifyOptions
option that passes through to
pki.verifyCertificateChain
. Can be used for the above validityCheckDate
option.
Changed
- Support WebCrypto API in web workers.
rsa.generateKeyPair
:- Use
crypto.generateKeyPair
/crypto.generateKeyPairSync
on Node.js if
available (10.12.0+) and not in pure JS mode. - Use JS fallback in
rsa.generateKeyPair
if prng
option specified since
this isn't supported by current native APIs. - Only run key generation comparison tests if keys will be deterministic.
- PhantomJS is deprecated, now using Headless Chrome with Karma.
- Note: Using Headless Chrome vs PhantomJS may cause newer JS features to
slip into releases without proper support for older runtimes and browsers.
Please report such issues and they will be addressed.
pki.verifyCertificateChain
:- Signature changed to
(caStore, chain, options)
. Older (caStore, chain,
verify)
signature is still supported. New style is to to pass in a
verify
option.
0.7.6 - 2018-08-14
Added
- Test on Node.js 10.x.
- Support for PKCS#7 detached signatures.
Changed
- Improve webpack/browser detection.
0.7.5 - 2018-03-30
Fixed
0.7.4 - 2018-03-07
Fixed
- Potential regex denial of service in form.js.
Added
- Support for ED25519.
- Support for baseN/base58.
0.7.3 - 2018-03-05
- Re-publish with npm 5.6.0 due to file timestamp issues.
0.7.2 - 2018-02-27
Added
- Support verification of SHA-384 certificates.
1.2.840.10040.4.3'
/dsa-with-sha1
OID.
Fixed
- Support importing PKCS#7 data with no certificates. RFC 2315 sec 9.1 states
certificates are optional.
asn1.equals
loop bug.- Fortuna implementation bugs.
0.7.1 - 2017-03-27
Fixed
- Fix digestLength for hashes based on SHA-512.
0.7.0 - 2017-02-07
Fixed
- Fix test looping bugs so all tests are run.
- Improved ASN.1 parsing. Many failure cases eliminated. More sanity checks.
Better behavior in default mode of parsing BIT STRINGs. Better handling of
parsed BIT STRINGs in
toDer()
. More tests. - Improve X.509 BIT STRING handling by using new capture modes.
Changed
- Major refactor to use CommonJS plus a browser build system.
- Updated tests, examples, docs.
- Updated dependencies.
- Updated flash build system.
- Improve OID mapping code.
- Change test servers from Python to JavaScript.
- Improve PhantomJS support.
- Move Bower/bundle support to
forge-dist.
- BREAKING: Require minimal digest algorithm dependencies from individual
modules.
- Enforce currently supported bit param values for byte buffer access. May be
BREAKING for code that depended on unspecified and/or incorrect behavior.
- Improve
asn1.prettyPrint()
BIT STRING display.
Added
- webpack bundler support via
npm run build
:- Builds
.js
, .min.js
, and basic sourcemaps. - Basic build:
forge.js
. - Build with extra utils and networking support:
forge.all.js
. - Build WebWorker support:
prime.worker.js
.
- Browserify support in package.json.
- Karma browser testing.
forge.options
field.forge.options.usePureJavaScript
flag.forge.util.isNodejs
flag (used to select "native" APIs).- Run PhantomJS tests in Travis-CI.
- Add "Donations" section to README.
- Add IRC to "Contact" section of README.
- Add "Security Considerations" section to README.
- Add pbkdf2 usePureJavaScript test.
- Add rsa.generateKeyPair async and usePureJavaScript tests.
- Add .editorconfig support.
- Add
md.all.js
which includes all digest algorithms. - Add asn1
equals()
and copy()
. - Add asn1
validate()
capture options for BIT STRING contents and value.
Removed
- BREAKING: Can no longer call
forge({...})
to create new instances. - Remove a large amount of old cruft.
Migration from 0.6.x to 0.7.x
- (all) If you used the feature to create a new forge instance with new
configuration options you will need to rework your code. That ability has
been removed due to implementation complexity. The main rare use was to set
the option to use pure JavaScript. That is now available as a library global
flag
forge.options.usePureJavaScript
. - (npm,bower) If you used the default main file there is little to nothing to
change.
- (npm) If you accessed a sub-resource like
forge/js/pki
you should either
switch to just using the main forge
and access forge.pki
or update to
forge/lib/pki
. - (bower) If you used a sub-resource like
forge/js/pki
you should switch to
just using forge
and access forge.pki
. The bower release bundles
everything in one minified file. - (bower) A configured workerScript like
/bower_components/forge/js/prime.worker.js
will need to change to
/bower_components/forge/dist/prime.worker.min.js
. - (all) If you used the networking support or flash socket support, you will
need to use a custom build and/or adjust where files are loaded from. This
functionality is not included in the bower distribution by default and is
also now in a different directory.
- (all) The library should now directly support building custom bundles with
webpack, browserify, or similar.
- (all) If building a custom bundle ensure the correct dependencies are
included. In particular, note there is now a
md.all.js
file to include all
digest algorithms. Individual files limit what they include by default to
allow smaller custom builds. For instance, pbdkf2.js
has a sha1
default
but does not include any algorithm files by default. This allows the
possibility to include only sha256
without the overhead of sha1
and
sha512
.
Notes
- This major update requires updating the version to 0.7.x. The existing
work-in-progress "0.7.x" branch will be painfully rebased on top of this new
0.7.x and moved forward to 0.8.x or later as needed.
- 0.7.x is a start of simplifying forge based on common issues and what has
appeared to be the most common usage. Please file issues with feedback if the
changes are problematic for your use cases.
0.6.x - 2016 and earlier