Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in nanoid

Description

The package nanoid from 3.0.0, before 3.1.31, are vulnerable to Information Exposure via the valueOf() function which allows to reproduce the last id generated.

Recommendation

Update the nanoid package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): >= 3.0.0, < 3.1.31
• Patched version(s): 3.1.31

References

• GHSA-qrpm-p2h7-hrv2
• snyk.io
• lists.debian.org
• CVE-2021-23566
• CWE-200
• CWE-704
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A1
• OWASP 2021-A6

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• @kilocode/cli Vulnerable to Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor - CVE-2026-8766
• Converse.js Exposure of Sensitive Information - CVE-2018-6591
• Exposure of Sensitive Information in eventsource - CVE-2022-1650
• Exposure of Sensitive Information in simple-get - CVE-2022-0355

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Tags:

npm

nanoid