xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser

Summary On the @xmldom/xmldom 0.8.x line, parsing an XML end tag whose name is followed by a long run of whitespace and then a non-whitespace character triggers quadratic-time regular-expression backtracking ReDoS, so a single small crafted end tag stalls the Node.js event loop. It is reachable...

GHSA-X4FP-J954-R2F4 xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser

Summary On the @xmldom/xmldom 0.8.x line, parsing an XML end tag whose name is followed by a long run of whitespace and then a non-whitespace character triggers quadratic-time regular-expression backtracking ReDoS, so a single small crafted end tag stalls the Node.js event loop. It is reachable...

CVE-2026-83619

xmldom (a pure JavaScript W3C-compliant DOMParser and XMLSerializer module) is vulnerable to a ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in versions 0.7.0 through 0.8.15 . The root cause is an unanchored global regex /[ \t\n\r]+$/g in lib/sax.js that trims end-tag names; when an end tag contai...

CVE-2026-83619 xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser

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...

CVE-2026-83619 xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser

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...