GHSA-2v37-7h3g-55p8HighCVSS 5.9

nanoid: custom generators can loop indefinitely when size is zero

Published
July 29, 2026
Last Modified
August 13, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • npm/nanoid:>= 4.0.0, < 5.1.6
  • npm/nanoid:< 3.3.18

🔗 References (9)