Xmldom vulnerability
Issue date: 21-09-2021Affects versions: 14.6
Security Issue ID
SECURITY-234
Affected Product Version(s)
14.6.0 and previous releases.
Severity
medium
Description
Impact `xmldom` versions 0.4.0 and older do not correctly preserve [system identifiers](https://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#d0e4313), [FPIs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_Public_Identifier) or [namespaces](https://www.w3.org/TR/xml-names11/) when repeatedly parsing and serializing maliciously crafted documents. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications. ### Workarounds Downstream applications can validate the input and reject the maliciously crafted documents.
Instructions
Customers using the 14.x major versions are recommended to upgrade to the latest version in that series.