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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-83606 EUVD-2026-69216GHSA-g53g-w8rj-fmg7

xmldom PI grammar regex ReDoS: quadratic backtracking on unterminated processing instructions

Published Sep 1, 2026 · Updated Sep 1, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.9 until 0.9.11, the processing-instruction production in lib/grammar.js lets the greedy S+ separator and lazy Char*? data group repeatedly repartition a long whitespace tail when the required closing ?> is absent. Both parsePI and parseProcessingInstruction apply the expression to the entire remaining source, causing quadratic backtracking during DOMParser.parseFromString() under default options and allowing a small unauthenticated XML input to stall the Node.js event loop. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.11.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xmldom xmldom >= 0.9.0-beta.9, < 0.9.11 —
@xmldom xmldom >= 0.9.0-beta.9, < 0.9.11 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 node-xmldom 0.9.11-1 —
Debian 13 node-xmldom No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-xmldom No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS node-xmldom No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS node-xmldom No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS node-xmldom No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS node-xmldom No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @xmldom/xmldom >= 0.9.0-beta.9, < 0.9.11 0.9.11 GHSA-g53g-w8rj-fmg7

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