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archivevulnerability · 08 Sep 2026 · 21:00 UTC

GHSA-93r5-fhx6-vmg9: xmldom: Quadratic-time parsing via the malformed-input recovery path — `parseElementStartPart` re-scan and `no

VULNCVE-2026-83614source · GTH
HIGHHigh-risk vulnerability

last 60 dispatches · spectrum

## Summary `xmldom`'s malformed-input **error-recovery path** has two quadratic-time (O(n²)) behaviors that a single crafted input triggers together, so a tiny, highly compressible document (tens of KB) stalls the Node.js event loop for multiple seconds. It is reachable from `DOMParser.parseFromString` under **default options** — i.e. from unauthenticated, network-delivered XML — making this an unauthenticated denial of service. …

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