CVE-2026-83618

NameCVE-2026-83618
Descriptionxmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.10 until 0.9.12, the requireWellFormed: true serializer validates DocumentType.publicId and DocumentType.systemId with PubidLiteral_match and SystemLiteral_match expressions produced by reg() in lib/grammar.js, which inherit the multiline flag. A complete valid literal on the first line can therefore satisfy the matcher while U+000A, U+000D, U+2028, or U+2029 and breakout markup remain in the emitted <!DOCTYPE ...> declaration. This bypasses the strict-serialization mitigation for the earlier DocumentType injection advisory; creation and direct property assignment remain unvalidated by design. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.12.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
node-xmldom (PTS)bookworm0.8.6-1vulnerable
trixie0.9.6-1vulnerable
forky, sid0.9.11-1vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
node-xmldomsource(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-vr34-hp96-76pp
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1071
Fixed by: https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/7b2ec67e1750daadd0bb06c92e875e726544a362 (0.9.12)

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