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GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8

nanoid: custom generators can loop indefinitely when size is zero

Quick fix

GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8 — nanoid: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install nanoid@3.3.17

Details

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.

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Affected packages

npm / nanoid
Introduced in: 0 Fixed in: 3.3.17
Fix npm install nanoid@3.3.17
npm / nanoid
Introduced in: 4.0.0 Fixed in: 5.1.6
Fix npm install nanoid@5.1.6

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