CVE-2026-83606

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.9 until 0.9.11, the processing-instruction production in lib/grammar.js lets the greedy S+ separator and lazy Char*? data group repeatedly repartition a long whitespace tail when the required closing ?> is absent. Both parsePI and parseProcessingInstruction apply the expression to the entire remaining source, causing quadratic backtracking during DOMParser.parseFromString() under default options and allowing a small unauthenticated XML input to stall the Node.js event loop. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.11.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/73df6b8bdbd86f904b9e8c3ab9c49aa54ef2802e
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1039
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/releases/tag/0.9.11
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-g53g-w8rj-fmg7
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-g53g-w8rj-fmg7

Configurations

No configuration.

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-09-01 15:17

Updated : 2026-09-08 21:11

NVD link : CVE-2026-83606

Mitre link : CVE-2026-83606

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-83606

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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