Skip to content
Patch Next
Sign inAdd to your agent

← Public intelligence

npm package

xmldom

Open actionable advisories and recorded vendor fixes. This public package view has no inventory attached and cannot establish whether your deployment is affected. A vendor fix never resolves your finding; verify your installed version and the source guidance.

Open advisories

1 actionable advisory, newest first. Withdrawn advisories and news are excluded. Coverage is partial.

  1. Medium, CVSS 4.3npmAmendedPublished

    Misinterpretation of malicious XML input

    CVE-2021-21366 · GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv

    Affected
    • npm xmldom < 0.5.0
    Fixed in
    0.5.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    Impact xmldom versions 0.4.0 and older do not correctly preserve system identifiers, FPIs or namespaces when repeatedly parsing and serializing maliciously crafted documents. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications. Patches Update to 0.5.0 (once it is released) Workarounds Downstream applications can validate the input and reject the maliciously crafted documents. References Similar to this one reported on the Go standard library: - https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/ For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: Open an issue in xmldom/xmldom Email us: send an email to all addresses that are shown by npm owner ls xmldom

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 0.5.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →