Bug 2560619 - CVE-2026-106074 nodejs26: nodejs: predictable random values via snapshot entropy cache reuse [fedora-rawhide]
Summary: CVE-2026-106074 nodejs26: nodejs: predictable random values via snapshot entr...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nodejs26
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
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Assignee: Jan Staněk
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Blocks: CVE-2026-106074
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Reported: 2026-10-26 11:48 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-10-26 11:48 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-10-26 11:48:34 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

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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