High, CVSS 7.5npmAmendedPublished
Denial of service vulnerability exists in libxmljs
CVE-2022-21144 · GHSA-773h-w45w-f2f9
- Affected
- npm libxmljs < 0.19.8
- Fixed in
- 0.19.8· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- libxmljs provides libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine. This affects all versions of package libxmljs. When invoking the libxmljs.parseXml function with a non-buffer argument the V8 code will attempt invoking the .toString method of the argument. If the argument's toString value is not a Function object V8 will crash.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.19.8 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.