DavidOsipov Vision-ui up to 1.4.x generateSecureId length resource consumption

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in DavidOsipov Vision-ui up to 1.4.x. This issue affects the function generateSecureId. The manipulation of the argument length results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2025-54884. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in DavidOsipov Vision-ui up to 1.4.x. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is the function generateSecureId. The manipulation of the argument length with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Vision UI is a collection of enterprise-grade, dependency-free modules for modern web projects. In versions 1.4.0 and below, the generateSecureId and getSecureRandomInt functions in security-kit versions prior to 3.5.0 (packaged in Vision UI 1.4.0 and below) are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks. The generateSecureId(length) function directly used the length parameter to size a Uint8Array buffer, allowing attackers to exhaust server memory through repeated requests for large IDs since the previous 1024 limit was insufficient. The getSecureRandomInt(min, max) function calculated buffer size based on the range between min and max, where large ranges caused excessive memory allocation and CPU-intensive rejection-sampling loops that could hang the thread. This issue is fixed in version 1.5.0.

The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-54884 since 07/31/2025. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 1.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 74802cd688b661a35e638fc96938d65ca7c05ff5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

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• DavidOsipov

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• Vision-ui

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4

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• open-source

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• Product: https://github.com/DavidOsipov/Vision-ui/

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