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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | xmldom PI grammar regex ReDoS: quadratic backtracking on unterminated processing instructions | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-1333 CWE-400 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-09-01T14:21:27.215Z
Updated: 2026-09-01T14:57:43.875Z
Reserved: 2026-08-31T20:36:25.743Z
Link: CVE-2026-83606
Updated: 2026-09-01T14:57:33.295Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-01T15:17:38.490
Modified: 2026-09-01T15:17:38.490
Link: CVE-2026-83606