CVE-2022-39353

Summary

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. xmldom parses XML that is not well-formed because it contains multiple top level elements, and adds all root nodes to the childNodes collection of the Document, without reporting any error or throwing. This breaks the assumption that there is only a single root node in the tree, which led to issuance of CVE-2022-39299 as it is a potential issue for dependents. Update to @xmldom/xmldom@~0.7.7, @xmldom/xmldom@~0.8.4 (dist-tag latest) or @xmldom/xmldom@>=0.9.0-beta.4 (dist-tag next). As a workaround, please one of the following approaches depending on your use case: instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the documentElementor reject a document with a document that has more then 1 childNode.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
xmldomxmldom<= 0.6.0affected
xmldomxmldom< 0.7.7affected
xmldomxmldom>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.4affected
xmldomxmldom>= 0.9.0-beta.1, < 0.9.0-beta.4affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-20: CWE-20: Improper Input Validation
  • CWE-1288: CWE-1288: Improper Validation of Consistency within Input

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References