CVE-2026-83619

Summary

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.7.0 until 0.8.15, the release-0.8.x parser in lib/sax.js trims captured end-tag names with the unanchored global expression /[ \t\n\r]+$/g. For an end tag containing a long whitespace run followed by a non-whitespace character, the expression retries from each possible starting position and backtracks quadratically before failing its end anchor. DOMParser.parseFromString() reaches the path under default options, allowing a small unauthenticated XML input to stall the Node.js event loop; the 0.9.x and unscoped npm lines do not contain this expression. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.8.15.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
xmldomxmldom>= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15affected
@xmldomxmldom>= 0.7.0, < 0.8.15affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1333: CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: yes
    • Technical Impact: partial

References