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This PR contains the following updates:

Package Change Age Confidence
uuid 8.3.214.0.0 age confidence

uuid: Missing buffer bounds check in v3/v5/v6 when buf is provided

GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq

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Summary

v3, v5, and v6 accept external output buffers but do not reject out-of-range writes (small buf or large offset).
By contrast, v4, v1, and v7 explicitly throw RangeError on invalid bounds.

This inconsistency allows silent partial writes into caller-provided buffers.

Affected code
  • src/v35.ts (v3/v5 path) writes buf[offset + i] without bounds validation.
  • src/v6.ts writes buf[offset + i] without bounds validation.
Reproducible PoC
cd /home/StrawHat/uuid
npm ci
npm run build

node --input-type=module -e "
import {v4,v5,v6} from './dist-node/index.js';
const ns='6ba7b810-9dad-11d1-80b4-00c04fd430c8';
for (const [name,fn] of [
  ['v4',()=>v4({},new Uint8Array(8),4)],
  ['v5',()=>v5('x',ns,new Uint8Array(8),4)],
  ['v6',()=>v6({},new Uint8Array(8),4)],
]) {
  try { fn(); console.log(name,'NO_THROW'); }
  catch(e){ console.log(name,'THREW',e.name); }
}"

Observed:

  • v4 THREW RangeError
  • v5 NO_THROW
  • v6 NO_THROW

Example partial overwrite evidence captured during audit:

same true buf [
  170, 170, 170, 170,
   75, 224, 100,  63
]
v6 [
  187, 187, 187, 187,
   31,  19, 185,  64
]
Security impact
  • Primary: integrity/robustness issue (silent partial output).
  • If an application assumes full UUID writes into preallocated buffers, this can produce malformed/truncated/partially stale identifiers without error.
  • In systems where caller-controlled offsets/buffer sizes are exposed indirectly, this may become a security-relevant logic flaw.
Suggested fix

Add the same guard used by v4/v1/v7:

if (offset < 0 || offset + 16 > buf.length) {
  throw new RangeError(`UUID byte range ${offset}:${offset + 15} is out of buffer bounds`);
}

Apply to:

  • src/v35.ts (covers v3 and v5)
  • src/v6.ts

Severity

  • CVSS Score: 6.3 / 10 (Medium)
  • Vector String: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

References

This data is provided by the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0).


Release Notes

uuidjs/uuid (uuid)

v14.0.0

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Security
  • Fixes GHSA-w5hq-g745-h8pq: v3(), v5(), and v6() did not validate that writes would remain within the bounds of a caller-supplied buffer, allowing out-of-bounds writes when an invalid offset was provided. A RangeError is now thrown if offset < 0 or offset + 16 > buf.length.
⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • crypto is now expected to be globally defined (requires node@​20+) (#​935)
  • drop node@​18 support (#​934)
  • upgrade minimum supported TypeScript version to 5.4.3, in keeping with the project's policy of supporting TypeScript versions released within the last two years

v13.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • make browser exports the default (#​901)
Bug Fixes

v12.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • update to typescript@​5.2 (#​887)
  • remove CommonJS support (#​886)
  • drop node@​16 support (#​883)
Features
Bug Fixes

v11.1.0

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Features
  • update TS types to allowUint8Array subtypes for buffer option (#​865) (a5231e7)

v11.0.5

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Bug Fixes

v11.0.4

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Bug Fixes

v11.0.3

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Bug Fixes

v11.0.2

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Bug Fixes

v11.0.1

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Bug Fixes

v11.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • refactor v1 internal state and options logic (#​780)
  • refactor v7 internal state and options logic, fixes #​764 (#​779)
  • Port to TypeScript, closes #​762 (#​763)
  • update node support matrix (only support node 16-20) (#​750)
Features
Bug Fixes

v10.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • update node support (drop node@​12, node@​14, add node@​20) (#​750)
Features
Bug Fixes

v9.0.1

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build
  • Fix CI to work with Node.js 20.x

v9.0.0

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⚠ BREAKING CHANGES
  • Drop Node.js 10.x support. This library always aims at supporting one EOLed LTS release which by this time now is 12.x which has reached EOL 30 Apr 2022.

  • Remove the minified UMD build from the package.

    Minified code is hard to audit and since this is a widely used library it seems more appropriate nowadays to optimize for auditability than to ship a legacy module format that, at best, serves educational purposes nowadays.

    For production browser use cases, users should be using a bundler. For educational purposes, today's online sandboxes like replit.com offer convenient ways to load npm modules, so the use case for UMD through repos like UNPKG or jsDelivr has largely vanished.

  • Drop IE 11 and Safari 10 support. Drop support for browsers that don't correctly implement const/let and default arguments, and no longer transpile the browser build to ES2015.

    This also removes the fallback on msCrypto instead of the crypto API.

    Browser tests are run in the first supported version of each supported browser and in the latest (as of this commit) version available on Browserstack.

Features
Bug Fixes
build
8.3.2 (2020-12-08)
Bug Fixes
8.3.1 (2020-10-04)
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