Refactor node-forge to address ASN.1 unbounded recursion vulnerability

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The project used vulnerable node-forge <=1.3.1, exposing ASN.1 DER parsing to unbounded recursion DoS.

How the feature works? / How did you fix the issue?

• Override node-forge to patched 1.3.2 to block ASN.1 recursion-based stack exhaustion.
• Updated lockfile to resolve selfsigned’s node-forge dependency to 1.3.2.

"overrides": {
  "nth-check": "^2.1.1",
  "node-forge": "1.3.2"
}

Check list

• unit-tests written
• e2e-tests written
• documentation updated
• PR name follows the pattern #1234 – issue name
• branch name doesn't contain '#'
• PR is linked with the issue
• base branch (master or release/xx) is correct
• task status changed to "Code review"
• reviewers are notified about the pull request

Original prompt

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This section details on the original issue you should resolve

<issue_title>Refactor: node-forge has ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion</issue_title>
<issue_description>### Summary

An Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) vulnerability in node-forge versions 1.3.1 and below enables remote, unauthenticated attackers to craft deep ASN.1 structures that trigger unbounded recursive parsing. This leads to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) via stack exhaustion when parsing untrusted DER inputs.

Details

An ASN.1 Denial of Service (Dos) vulnerability exists in the node-forge asn1.fromDer function within forge/lib/asn1.js. The ASN.1 DER parser implementation (_fromDer) recurses for every constructed ASN.1 value (SEQUENCE, SET, etc.) and lacks a guard limiting recursion depth. An attacker can craft a small DER blob containing a very large nesting depth of constructed TLVs which causes the Node.js V8 engine to exhaust its call stack and throw RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded, crashing or incapacitating the process handling the parse. This is a remote, low-cost Denial-of-Service against applications that parse untrusted ASN.1 objects.

Impact

This vulnerability enables an unauthenticated attacker to reliably crash a server or client using node-forge for TLS connections or certificate parsing.

This vulnerability impacts the ans1.fromDer function in node-forge before patched version 1.3.2.

Any downstream application using this component is impacted. These components may be leveraged by downstream applications in ways that enable full compromise of availability.

Solution
Update node-forge package to latest version
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Comments on the Issue (you are @copilot in this section)

• Fixes Refactor: node-forge has ASN.1 Unbounded Recursion #9013

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