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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-83614 EUVD-2026-69234GHSA-93r5-fhx6-vmg9

xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge

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. 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

VendorProductAffectedFixed
xmldom xmldom >= 0.3.0, <= 0.6.0 —
@xmldom xmldom >= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15, >= 0.9.0, < 0.9.12 —

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 0.9.12-1 —
Debian 13 node-xmldom No fix yet —
Debian 12 node-xmldom No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 node-xmldom No fix yet —
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 —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-tensorboard No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @xmldom/xmldom >= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15 0.8.15 GHSA-93r5-fhx6-vmg9
npm @xmldom/xmldom >= 0.9.0, < 0.9.12 0.9.12 GHSA-93r5-fhx6-vmg9
npm xmldom >= 0.3.0, <= 0.6.0 — GHSA-93r5-fhx6-vmg9

Advisories 3

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