Xmldom vulnerability 

Issue date: 21-09-2021
Affects versions: 14.6

Security Issue ID

SECURITY-234

 

Affected Product Version(s)

14.6.0 and previous releases.


Severity 

medium

 

Description

 

NPM-1650 

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.