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GHSA-crh6-fp67-6883
No affected components available
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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-39299
- https://github.com/jindw/xmldom/issues/150
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
- Email us at security@xmldom.org
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. Immediate patching or mitigation is required.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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