CVE-2026-83612
Severity not reportedxmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module.
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.1 until 0.9.12, HTML-mode parsing through DOMParser.parseFromString() mishandles a mixed-case closing tag for the script, style, textarea, or title raw-text elements. parseHtmlSpecialContent, selected by isHTMLRawTextElement or isHTMLEscapableRawTextElement, uses a case-sensitive indexOf() and then calls substring() with a missing-close result of negative one, causing unstable parser progression and quadratic output amplification. A small untrusted text/html document can consequently consume disproportionate CPU and memory when parsed and serialized. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.12.
Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/7ced40c06c28d151e996a97045018c3559ae4707 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1071 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/releases/tag/0.9.12 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-6mj3-qw4j-hgrw security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-6mj3-qw4j-hgrw 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0