Critical · published December 9, 2025
🔥 When your cryptographic random number generator goes MIA, your UUIDs might just be playing dress-up as predictable values! Imagine a bakery that runs out of flour and decides to substitute it with plain old sand — the cookies might look fine, but they’re definitely not safe to eat! Here, Fiber's functions are just as sneaky, returning the zero UUID when things go awry instead of generating secure random values. This vulnerability is absolutely devastating because it could allow attackers to predict UUIDs, opening a backdoor to the system for unauthorized actions. If anyone can guess these identifiers, they can compromise the security of all applications relying on them, making it a prime target for exploitation. Your application could become a playground for malicious actors!
Imagine a bakery that runs out of flour and decides to substitute it with plain old sand — the cookies might look fine, but they’re definitely not safe to eat! Here, Fiber's functions are just as sneaky, returning the zero UUID when things go awry instead of generating secure random values. CVE-2025-66565 arises from Fiber Utils’ reliance on the system’s crypto/rand for generating UUIDs. When the generator fails, it silently reverts to predictable values, including the zero UUID, which severely undermines the security of operations that depend on these UUIDs.
This vulnerability is absolutely devastating because it could allow attackers to predict UUIDs, opening a backdoor to the system for unauthorized actions. If anyone can guess these identifiers, they can compromise the security of all applications relying on them, making it a prime target for exploitation. Your application could become a playground for malicious actors! To secure your applications, upgrade Fiber Utils to version 2.0.0-rc.4 immediately. Conduct a thorough review of how UUIDs are used in your security-critical operations and ensure that you're not relying on fallback values. Don't leave anything to chance! You've got this! By following these steps, you can easily lock down your application and keep threats at bay! 🛡️
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| gofiber/utils | ≤ 1.2.0 | — |
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