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GHSA-28wg-ghj8-5hjv

nanoid: non-secure generators can loop indefinitely with negative size

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-67214

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
npm nanoid < 3.3.16 3.3.16
npm nanoid >= 4.0.0, < 5.1.16 5.1.16

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

nanoid (Nano ID) before 5.1.16 contains an infinite loop in the customAlphabet and nanoid functions of its non-secure module (nanoid/non-secure). When these functions are given a negative size, the loop counter is decremented from a negative value and never reaches its termination condition, spinning indefinitely and hanging the calling thread. An application that passes an unvalidated, attacker-controlled negative size to these functions is exposed to a denial-of-service condition.

References

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