diff --git a/package-lock.json b/package-lock.json
index e6ee94fbd0..d1524f307d 100644
--- a/package-lock.json
+++ b/package-lock.json
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
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         "acorn": "bin/acorn"
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-      "peer": true,
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@@ -8443,15 +8432,6 @@
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-      "license": "(BSD-3-Clause OR GPL-2.0)",
-      "engines": {
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index a17a1e291f..9ae64c568b 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -215,7 +215,6 @@
     "google-auth-library": "^9.14.2",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^9.0.0",
     "jwks-rsa": "^3.1.0",
-    "node-forge": "^1.3.1",
     "uuid": "^11.0.2"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
diff --git a/src/app/credential-internal.ts b/src/app/credential-internal.ts
index 8ce61b4edd..34043a3597 100644
--- a/src/app/credential-internal.ts
+++ b/src/app/credential-internal.ts
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
  */
 
 import fs = require('fs');
+import { createPrivateKey } from 'crypto';
 
 import { Credentials as GoogleAuthCredentials, GoogleAuth, Compute, AnyAuthClient } from 'google-auth-library'
 import { Agent } from 'http';
@@ -214,10 +215,9 @@ class ServiceAccount {
       throw new FirebaseAppError(AppErrorCodes.INVALID_CREDENTIAL, errorMessage);
     }
 
-    // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
-    const forge = require('node-forge');
+    // Validate private key format using native crypto module
     try {
-      forge.pki.privateKeyFromPem(this.privateKey);
+      createPrivateKey(this.privateKey);
     } catch (error) {
       throw new FirebaseAppError(
         AppErrorCodes.INVALID_CREDENTIAL,