Misinterpretation of malicious XML input - xmldom - CVE-2021-32796

Description

xmldom versions 0.6.0 and older do not correctly escape special characters when serializing elements removed from their ancestor. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

<= 0.6.0

References

GHSA-5fg8-2547-mr8q
www.npmjs.com
mattermost.com
CVE-2021-32796
CWE-116
CAPEC-310
OWASP 2021-A3
OWASP 2021-A6

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