CVE-2026-83614
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. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of service. In lib/sax.js, parseElementStartPart repeatedly rescans a malformed tag name to the next > during single-character recovery; in lib/dom.js, normalize() repeatedly removes and appends adjacent text nodes, causing quadratic reindexing and string rebuilding. The first path is reachable through default DOMParser.parseFromString() processing, while the second is also reachable through a direct normalize() call on a programmatically constructed DOM, and endDocument invokes that normalization after parsing. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
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/0748720b620555f8c222782dcab575cf0cf403b4 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/f40ccb861eee0acbf5ee4feb9a34932e87b329c9 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1071 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1072 security-advisories@github.com
- https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/releases/tag/0.8.15 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-93r5-fhx6-vmg9 security-advisories@github.com