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Tiago Silva scored the only goal of the game to down the hosts and move Forest up to third in the Championship – just three points behind second place Leeds.
It was a second successive defeat for Cardiff and means they are now six points behind Preston in sixth, with their play-off hopes fading fast.
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And it was a disappointing loss for the Bluebirds, as Neil Harris’ side more than matched promotion-chasing Forest on the pitch – recording 18 total shots and hitting the target on four occasions.
This disappointment boiled over when the final whistle blew as Callum Paterson and Leandro Bacuna, Cardiff teammates, squared up to one another on the pitch.
Bacuna raised his hand to Paterson’s throat and the duo only separated when a third Cardiff player, Will Vaulks, intervened to separate them.
Manager Harris played down the incident after the match by saying he is fine if his players clash with one another – as long as it is in the heat of the moment, and such a bust-up is dealt with at that moment.
“I’ve got no complaint at all about passion,” said Harris. “I played like that, I manage like that, I like personality,
“I like character, I like a winning mentality and if there is an argument at full-time then it will boil down to the fact we didn’t win the game.