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node-xmldom — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39353

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. 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 issuance of CVE-2022-39299 as it is a potential issue for dependents. 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). As a workaround, please one of the following approaches depending on your use case: instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the `documentElement`or reject a document with a document that has more then 1 `childNode`.

Products
node-xmldom
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
0.8.6-1
CVEs
CVE-2022-39353
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 14:58 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39353

core-osv · Original source

Published 2 Nov 2022, 17:15 UTC

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) `DOMParser` and `XMLSerializer` module. 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 issuance of CVE-2022-39299 as it is a potential issue for dependents. 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). As a workaround, please one of the following approaches depending on your use case: instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the `documentElement`or reject a document with a document that has more then 1 `childNode`.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-39353

node-xmldom

Fixed versions: 0.8.6-1

node-xmldom

Fixed versions: 0.8.6-1

node-xmldom

Fixed versions: 0.8.6-1

Complete source record
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