GHSA-93R5-FHX6-VMG9 xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge

Summary xmldom's malformed-input error-recovery path has two quadratic-time On² behaviors that a single crafted input triggers together, so a tiny, highly compressible document tens of KB stalls the Node.js event loop for multiple seconds. It is reachable from DOMParser.parseFromString under...

The vulnerability of the parseElementStartPart() function in the lib/sax.js file of the XML document access and management module XMLDOM allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the parseElementStartPart function in the lib/sax.js file, a module for defining methods to access and manage XML documents, is related to algorithmic complexity. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause service failures remotely...

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview @xmldom/xmldom is a javascript ponyfill to provide the following APIs that are present in modern browsers to other runtimes. Since version 0.7.0 this package is published to npm as @xmldom/xmldom and no longer as xmldom Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of...

CVE-2026-83614 xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of service. In lib/sax.js, parseElementStartPart...

CVE-2026-83614 xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of service. In lib/sax.js, parseElementStartPart...

CVE-2026-83614 xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `normalize()` adjacent-text merge

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of service. In lib/sax.js, parseElementStartPart...

CVE-2026-83614

xmldom , a pure JavaScript XML DOM parser, is vulnerable to quadratic-time denial of service via two independent code paths. The first, in lib/sax.js, causes parseElementStartPart to repeatedly rescan a malformed tag name to the next > during single-character recovery, reachable through the de...

CVE-2026-83614

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom versions 0.3.0 through 0.6.0, two independent quadratic paths can cause denial of service. In lib/sax.js, parseElementStartPart...