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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Configurations
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History
23 Oct 2026, 17:17
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Information
Published : 2026-10-23 17:17
Updated : 2026-10-23 19:42
NVD link : CVE-2026-106074
Mitre link : CVE-2026-106074
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-106074
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Products Affected
No product.
CWE
CWE-330
Use of Insufficiently Random Values
