CVE-2026-83618 PUBLISHED

xmldom: requireWellFormed DocType publicId/systemId validation is bypassable via an embedded line terminator

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 31.08.2026 Published: 01.09.2026 Updated: 01.09.2026

xmldom 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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor xmldom
Product xmldom
Versions
  • Version >= 0.9.10, < 0.9.12 is affected
Vendor @xmldom
Product xmldom
Versions
  • Version >= 0.9.10, < 0.9.12 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-91: XML Injection (aka Blind XPath Injection) CWE
  • CWE-625: Permissive Regular Expression CWE