GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-28wg-ghj8-5hjv nanoid: non-secure generators can loop indefinitely with negative size
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-67214
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- nanoid
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-835
- Reviewed
- 2026-08-07
Affected packages
• npm nanoid: < 3.3.16 → fixed in 3.3.16
• npm nanoid: >= 4.0.0, < 5.1.16 → fixed in 5.1.16
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-67214 nanoid (Nano ID) before 3.3.16 and 5.1.16 contains an infinite loop in the customAlphabet and nanoid functions of its non-secure module… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-67214 advisory
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid/pull/600 web
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid/pull/601 web
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid/commit/6ccc67bbaba71d3d77a21d9b636f4171a268ce49 web
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid/commit/e835c9b71eab832bc6106944bdd26ea96cf2c66d web
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid package
- https://github.com/ai/nanoid/releases/tag/5.1.16 web
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/nanoid-before-infinite-loop-via-negative-size-in-non-secure-module web