Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature in node-forge
Description
### Impact
RSA PKCS#1 v1.5 signature verification code is lenient in checking the digest algorithm structure. This can allow a crafted structure that steals padding bytes and uses unchecked portion of the PKCS#1 encoded message to forge a signature when a low public exponent is being used.
### Patches
The issue has been addressed in `node-forge` `1.3.0`.
### References
For more information, please see
["Bleichenbacher's RSA signature forgery based on implementation error"](https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/5rnE9ZRN1AokBVj3VqblGlP63QE/)
by Hal Finney.
### For more information
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