# CVE-2025-66565: Fiber Utils UUIDv4 and UUID Silent Fallback to Predictable Values

- Also known as: GHSA-M98W-CQP3-QCQR, GO-2025-4208
- Severity: CVSS 9.3 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.0.0-rc.4, 1.2.0
- Published: 2025-12-09 · Updated: 2025-12-09

## Affected

- gofiber utils: github.com/gofiber/utils \<= 1.2.0, github.com/gofiber/utils/v2 \< 2.0.0-rc.4
- github.com/gofiber/utils/v2 (Go): fixed in 2.0.0-rc.4
- github.com/gofiber/utils (Go): fixed in 1.2.0

## Description

Fiber Utils is a collection of common functions created for Fiber. In versions 2.0.0-rc.3 and below, when the system's cryptographic random number generator (crypto/rand) fails, both functions silently fall back to returning predictable UUID values, including the zero UUID "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000". The vulnerability occurs through two related but distinct failure paths, both ultimately caused by crypto/rand.Read() failures, compromising the security of all Fiber applications using these functions for security-critical operations. This issue is fixed in version 2.0.0-rc.4.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on gofiber utils, github.com/gofiber/utils/v2, github.com/gofiber/utils, upgrade to a fixed version (2.0.0-rc.4, 1.2.0) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/gofiber/utils/security/advisories/GHSA-m98w-cqp3-qcqr
- https://github.com/gofiber/utils/commit/6c6cf047032b9c8dff43d29f990b4b10e9b02d47

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