Alta Video —1818: Infinite loop in nanoid library

Release Date

4th of March 2025.

Overview

A vulnerability was discovered in the nanoid NPM library. When a certain function was invoked with a fractional value as an argument, it exhibited erratic behavior such as infinite loops in the browser environment.

Affected Products

• Alta Video:
  • All Stable upgrade channel versions before 7.3.7.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions before 7.3.4.

Unaffected Products

• Alta Video:

  • All Stable upgrade channel versions after and including 7.3.7.
  • All Beta upgrade channel versions after and including 7.3.4.

• Avigilon Cloud-Native Cameras: all versions.

• Alta Video Cloud: all versions.

Resolution

This issue has been fixed in Alta Video Beta upgrade channel version 7.3.4 and Stable upgrade channel version 7.3.7.

It is strongly recommended that all installations running an affected version are upgraded to the latest release as soon as possible. Releases are available to download through the Alta Video User Interface.

Vulnerability Information

• CVE: CVE-2024-55565
• CVSSv3 score: 4.3 (Medium)
• CVSSv3 vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Mitigations

There are no known mitigations for this issue.

Work arounds

There are no known work arounds for this issue.

Acknowledgements

Issue reported by @krassowski, @katzj, and @CrzyHAX91 on Github.

Disclosure Timeline

• 03/02/2025 Issue found
• 04/02/2025 Root cause established
• 04/02/2025 Fix identified
• 14/01/2025 Patched Alta Video (Beta upgrade channel) released
• 27/01/2025 Patched Alta Video (Stable upgrade channel) released
• 04/03/2025 Vulnerability publicly disclosed