GHSA-3PX3-54CX-RMW9 xmldom: Creation-time XML Name/QName validation is bypassable via an embedded line terminator, allowing injection on the default serialization path

Summary An embedded line terminator bypasses xmldom's always-on, WHATWG-mandated creation-time name validation. createElementNS, createAttributeNS, createDocumentType, and createAttribute should reject a malformed qualified name with InvalidCharacterError, but a name whose first line is well-form...

xmldom: Creation-time XML Name/QName validation is bypassable via an embedded line terminator, allowing injection on the default serialization path

Summary An embedded line terminator bypasses xmldom's always-on, WHATWG-mandated creation-time name validation. createElementNS, createAttributeNS, createDocumentType, and createAttribute should reject a malformed qualified name with InvalidCharacterError, but a name whose first line is well-form...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-83609

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based XML DOM Level 2 Core DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0 until 0.9.12, the shared reg builder in lib/grammar.js compiles the anchored QNameexact validator with the multiline flag, so ^ and $ validate only one line instead of the complete...