GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883

Suggest an improvement
Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/11/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2022-11-01T17:29:11Z
Modified
2026-09-10T03:49:47Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
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

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Database specific 
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1288",
        "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2022-11-01T17:29:11Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2022-11-02T17:15:00Z",
    "severity": "CRITICAL"
}
References

Affected packages

npm / xmldom

Package

Name
xmldom
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/xmldom

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Last Affected
0.6.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/11/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883.json"

npm / @xmldom/xmldom

Package

Name
@xmldom/xmldom
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40xmldom/xmldom

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
0.7.7

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/11/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883.json"

npm / @xmldom/xmldom

Package

Name
@xmldom/xmldom
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40xmldom/xmldom

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.8.0
Fixed
0.8.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/11/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883.json"

npm / @xmldom/xmldom

Package

Name
@xmldom/xmldom
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:npm/%40xmldom/xmldom

Affected ranges

Type
SEMVER
Events
Introduced
0.9.0-beta.1
Fixed
0.9.0-beta.4

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/11/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883/GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883.json"