Misinterpretation of malicious XML input - xmldom - GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv

Description

xmldom versions 0.4.0 and older do not correctly preserve system identifiers, FPIs or namespaces when repeatedly parsing and serializing maliciously crafted documents.

This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications.

Recommendation

Update the xmldom package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 0.5.0
• Patched version(s): 0.5.0

References

• GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv
• www.npmjs.com
• lists.debian.org
• CVE-2021-21366
• CWE-115
• CWE-436
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• Misinterpretation of malicious XML input - xmldom - CVE-2021-32796
• Misinterpretation of malicious XML input - CVE-2021-32796
• xmldom has XML injection through unvalidated DocumentType serialization - CVE-2026-41674
• Improper Neutralization of Input in Theia console - CVE-2021-28161

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xmldom