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nanoid 5.0.7 → 5.1.16 age confidence

Predictable results in nanoid generation when given non-integer values

CVE-2024-55565 / GHSA-mwcw-c2x4-8c55

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Details

When nanoid is called with a fractional value, there were a number of undesirable effects:

  1. in browser and non-secure, the code infinite loops on while (size--)
  2. in node, the value of poolOffset becomes fractional, causing calls to nanoid to return zeroes until the pool is next filled
  3. if the first call in node is a fractional argument, the initial buffer allocation fails with an error

Version 3.3.8 and 5.0.9 are fixed.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 4.3 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

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This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


nanoid: custom generators can loop indefinitely when size is zero

CVE-2026-67213 / GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8

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nanoid (Nano ID) before 5.1.6 contains an infinite loop in the customAlphabet and customRandom functions. When these functions are configured with a size of 0, the internal generation loop never satisfies its exit condition and spins indefinitely, hanging the calling thread. An application that passes an unvalidated, attacker-controlled size of 0 to these functions is exposed to a denial-of-service condition.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 8.2 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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

CVE-2026-67214 / GHSA-28wg-ghj8-5hjv

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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.

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 8.2 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


nanoid: Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2026-73086 / GHSA-xwg4-73v4-xw9w

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Summary

An integer overflow in nanoid(size) permanently corrupts the process-wide CSPRNG pool, causing all subsequent ID generation to return the deterministic string "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu". Any application that passes user-influenced values to the size parameter loses all randomness guarantees for session tokens, CSRF tokens, and unique identifiers until process restart.

Details

nanoid() at index.js:101 coerces the size parameter with size |= 0, which converts it to a signed 32-bit integer. When size >= 2^31 (e.g., 2147483648), this wraps to -2147483648.

The negative value is passed to fillPool() (index.js:15):

function fillPool(bytes) {
  if (!pool || pool.length < bytes) {       // false: pool exists, -2B < pool.length
    pool = Buffer.allocUnsafe(bytes * POOL_SIZE_MULTIPLIER)
    crypto.getRandomValues(pool)
    poolOffset = 0
  } else if (poolOffset + bytes > pool.length) {  // false: poolOffset + (-2B) < pool.length
    crypto.getRandomValues(pool)
    poolOffset = 0
  }
  poolOffset += bytes  // poolOffset += -2147483648 → deeply negative
}

Neither branch triggers, so the pool is never refreshed. poolOffset becomes ~-2.1 billion.

Subsequent nanoid() calls execute:

for (let i = poolOffset - size; i < poolOffset; i++) {
  id += scopedUrlAlphabet[pool[i] & 63]
}

pool[negative_index] returns undefined. undefined & 63 evaluates to 0. urlAlphabet[0] is 'u'. Every ID becomes "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu".

The corruption is persistent — it affects all subsequent calls in the process until ~100 million calls eventually wrap poolOffset back to positive, or the process restarts.

PoC
import { nanoid } from 'nanoid'

// Step 1: Normal operation
console.log(nanoid())  // e.g., "V1StGXR8_Z5jdHi6B-myT"

// Step 2: Trigger overflow (e.g., from an API parameter)
try { nanoid(2147483648) } catch(e) {}

// Step 3: All subsequent IDs are deterministic
console.log(nanoid())  // "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
console.log(nanoid())  // "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
console.log(nanoid())  // "uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
// ... forever, process-wide

Run with: node --experimental-vm-modules poc.mjs

Attack scenario: Any API endpoint that accepts a user-controlled length/size parameter (URL shortener slug length, configurable token size, etc.) and passes it to nanoid(userInput).

Impact

Complete loss of ID unpredictability and uniqueness, process-wide, from a single request.

  • All session IDs, CSRF tokens, API keys, and database identifiers generated after the attack are identical and predictable
  • An attacker can predict all tokens issued to other users, enabling session hijacking and authentication bypass
  • The corruption is persistent (survives across requests) and affects all consumers of nanoid in the same process
  • No special privileges or preconditions required — a single unauthenticated request is sufficient
  • Affects any application that passes external input to the size parameter without validation

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 7.4 / 10 (High)
  • Vector String: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


Release Notes

ai/nanoid (nanoid)

v5.1.16

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v5.1.15

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  • Fixed random pool corruption on big ID sizes.

v5.1.14

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  • Fixed npm package size regression.

v5.1.13

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  • Fixed npm package size regression.

v5.1.12

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  • Moved to npm Provenance and Staged Publishing.

v5.1.11

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  • Fixed breaking Nano ID by requesting big ID.

v5.1.10

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v5.1.9

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  • Fixed npm package size regression.

v5.1.8

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v5.1.7

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v5.1.6

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  • Fixed infinite loop on 0 size for customAlphabet.

v5.1.5

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  • Fixed latest version on npm after 3.x release.

v5.1.4

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  • Fixed latest version on npm after 3.x release.

v5.1.3

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v5.1.2

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  • Fixed module docs.

v5.1.1

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  • Fixed breaking Nano ID by requesting big ID.

v5.1.0

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v5.0.9

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  • Fixed a way to break Nano ID by passing non-integer size (by @​myndzi).

v5.0.8

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