diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index f375c597e6..db2d7c2c1d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -222,8 +222,7 @@
     "google-auth-library": "^10.6.1",
     "jsonwebtoken": "^9.0.0",
     "jwks-rsa": "^3.1.0",
-    "node-forge": "^1.4.0",
-    "uuid": "^11.0.2"
+    "node-forge": "^1.4.0"
   },
   "optionalDependencies": {
     "@google-cloud/firestore": "^7.11.0",
@@ -249,7 +248,6 @@
     "@types/request-promise": "^4.1.41",
     "@types/sinon": "^17.0.2",
     "@types/sinon-chai": "^3.0.0",
-    "@types/uuid": "^10.0.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/eslint-plugin": "^8.56.0",
     "@typescript-eslint/parser": "^8.56.0",
     "bcrypt": "^6.0.0",
diff --git a/src/eventarc/eventarc-utils.ts b/src/eventarc/eventarc-utils.ts
index 3737e5a906..bf1f4dc893 100644
--- a/src/eventarc/eventarc-utils.ts
+++ b/src/eventarc/eventarc-utils.ts
@@ -17,8 +17,9 @@
 
 import { PrefixedFirebaseError } from '../utils/error';
 import { CloudEvent } from './cloudevent';
-import { v4 as uuid } from 'uuid';
 import * as validator from '../utils/validator';
+// TODO: remove import in next major (v14)
+import * as crypto from 'crypto';
 
 // List of CloudEvent properties that are handled "by hand" and should be skipped by
 // automatic attribute copy.
@@ -50,7 +51,7 @@ export function toCloudEventProtoFormat(ce: CloudEvent): any {
   }
   const out: Record<string, any> = {
     '@type': 'type.googleapis.com/io.cloudevents.v1.CloudEvent',
-    'id': ce.id ?? uuid(),
+    'id': ce.id ?? crypto.randomUUID(),
     'type': ce.type,
     'specVersion': ce.specversion ?? '1.0',
     'source': source
diff --git a/test/unit/remote-config/condition-evaluator.spec.ts b/test/unit/remote-config/condition-evaluator.spec.ts
index 764d1b76ef..7576d22586 100644
--- a/test/unit/remote-config/condition-evaluator.spec.ts
+++ b/test/unit/remote-config/condition-evaluator.spec.ts
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ import {
   NamedCondition,
   OneOfCondition,
 } from '../../../src/remote-config/remote-config-api';
-import { v4 as uuidv4 } from 'uuid';
 import { clone } from 'lodash';
 import * as crypto from 'crypto';
 
@@ -907,7 +906,7 @@ describe('ConditionEvaluator', () => {
             ...clone(condition),
             seed: 'seed'
           };
-          const context = { randomizationId: uuidv4() }
+          const context = { randomizationId: crypto.randomUUID() }
           if (conditionEvaluator.evaluateConditions([{
             name: 'is_enabled',
             condition: { percent: clonedCondition }