A flaw in Node.js `crypto` causes the internal entropy caches used by `crypto.randomUUID()`, `crypto.randomUUIDv7()`, and `crypto.randomInt()` to be saved into user-land startup snapshots (`--build-snapshot`) and single executable applications built with `useSnapshot`.

If any of these functions, or an API that relies on them such as `URL.createObjectURL()`, is called while the snapshot is built, every process started from that snapshot returns the same values until the cache is refilled: up to 127 UUIDs and about 1,000 `randomInt()` values. Identifiers expected to be unique can collide across processes, and values issued by one process can be predicted by observing another.

This vulnerability affects Node.js **26.x**, **24.x**, and **22.x**.
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Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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Title Predictable Random Values Leak in Node.js Startup Snapshots

Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw in Node.js `crypto` causes the internal entropy caches used by `crypto.randomUUID()`, `crypto.randomUUIDv7()`, and `crypto.randomInt()` to be saved into user-land startup snapshots (`--build-snapshot`) and single executable applications built with `useSnapshot`. If any of these functions, or an API that relies on them such as `URL.createObjectURL()`, is called while the snapshot is built, every process started from that snapshot returns the same values until the cache is refilled: up to 127 UUIDs and about 1,000 `randomInt()` values. Identifiers expected to be unique can collide across processes, and values issued by one process can be predicted by observing another. This vulnerability affects Node.js **26.x**, **24.x**, and **22.x**.
Weaknesses CWE-330
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Metrics cvssV3_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N'}


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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-23T16:15:05.829Z

Reserved: 2026-10-06T15:00:00.655Z

Link: CVE-2026-106074

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Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-23T17:17:20.473

Modified: 2026-10-23T19:42:24.553

Link: CVE-2026-106074

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Updated: 2026-10-23T17:45:17Z

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