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Security checkMarch 31, 2023

xmldom allows multiple root nodes in a DOM - xmldom

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Description

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 https://nvd.nist.

Recommendation

No fix is available yet. Followings are affected versions:

  • <= 0.6.0

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