GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883

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    GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883

    Published: 1 Nov 2022Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026

    Summary: xmldom allows multiple root nodes in a DOM

    Details: ### Impact xmldom parses XML that is not well-formed because it contains multiple top level elements, and adds all root nodes to the `childNodes` collection of the `Document`, without reporting any error or throwing. This breaks the assumption that there is only a single root node in the tree, which led to https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39299 and is a potential issue for dependents. ### Patches Update to `@xmldom/xmldom@~0.7.7`, `@xmldom/xmldom@~0.8.4` (dist-tag `latest`) or `@xmldom/xmldom@>=0.9.0-beta.4` (dist-tag `next`). ### Workarounds One of the following approaches might help, depending on your use case: - Instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the `documentElement`. - Reject a document with a document that has more then 1 `childNode`. ### References - https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39299 - https://github.com/jindw/xmldom/issues/150 ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Email us at [email protected]

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: xmldom

    Purl: pkg:npm/xmldom

    Affected ranges

    Type: SEMVER

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

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