CVE-2026-41988: Uuidjs Uuid

Low severity, CVSS 2.5. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

uuid before 14.0.0 can make unexpected writes when external output buffers are used, and the UUID version is 3, 5, or 6. In particular, UUID version 4, which is very commonly used, is unaffected by this issue.

Affected products

• Uuidjs Uuid: before 11.1.1 (fixed in 11.1.1); version 12.0.0 only; version 13.0.0 only

Published 2026-04-23. Last modified 2026-07-08.