CVE-2021-32796

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    CVE-2021-32796

    Published: 27 Jul 2021Last Modified: 7 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: xmldom is an open source pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. xmldom versions 0.6.0 and older do not correctly escape special characters when serializing elements removed from their ancestor. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications. This issue has been resolved in version 0.7.0. As a workaround downstream applications can validate the input and reject the maliciously crafted documents.

    References: https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-5fg8-2547-mr8q, https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/, https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/7b4b743917a892d407356e055b296dcd6d107e8b

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -c568938641cc1f121cef5b4df80fcfda1e489b6e

    Affected versions

    0.6.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
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    Availability
    None
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    High
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