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Security checkSeptember 08, 2026

xmldom: Quadratic-time attribute deduplication

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High severitynpm@xmldom/xmldom

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Description

xmldom builds the attribute collection of every parsed element by inserting attributes one at a time into a DOM NamedNodeMap. Each insertion first performs a linear scan of all already-inserted attributes to enforce the DOM uniqueness rule (no two attributes with the same qualified name / namespace+local-name).

Recommendation

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

  • Affected version(s): **>= 0.9.0, <= 0.9.11 >= 0.7.0, <= 0.8.14**
  • Patched version(s): **0.9.12 0.8.15**

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