GHSA-28wg-ghj8-5hjvHighCVSS 5.9

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

Published
July 29, 2026
Last Modified
August 7, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/nanoid:< 3.3.16
  • npm/nanoid:>= 4.0.0, < 5.1.16

🔗 References (8)