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Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-83612 · published 1 September 2026

CVE-2026-83612: Uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.1 until 0.9.12, HTML-mode parsing through DOMParser.parseFromString() mishandles a mixed-case closing tag for the script, style, textarea, or title raw-text elements. parseHtmlSpecialContent, selected by isHTMLRawTextElement or isHTMLEscapableRawTextElement, uses a case-sensitive indexOf() and then calls substring() with a missing-close result of negative one, causing unstable parser progression and quadratic output amplification. A small untrusted text/html document can consequently consume disproportionate CPU and memory when parsed and serialized. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.12.

8.7 CVSS 4.0 High EPSS 0.52% · top 57.9% CWE-178 · CWE-178CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumption Deferred
8.7CVSS 4.0 base score
0.52%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
0Affected product versions listed by NVD
5References
8 Sep 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.1 until 0.9.12, HTML-mode parsing through DOMParser.parseFromString() mishandles a mixed-case closing tag for the script, style, textarea, or title raw-text elements. parseHtmlSpecialContent, selected by isHTMLRawTextElement or isHTMLEscapableRawTextElement, uses a case-sensitive indexOf() and then calls substring() with a missing-close result of negative one, causing unstable parser progression and quadratic output amplification. A small untrusted text/html document can consequently consume disproportionate CPU and memory when parsed and serialized. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.12.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:

References

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https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/commit/7ced40c06c28d151e996a97045018c3559ae4707
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/pull/1071
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/releases/tag/0.9.12
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-6mj3-qw4j-hgrw
https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-6mj3-qw4j-hgrw

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-83612), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-27). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.