GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/03/GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv/GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-h6q6-9hqw-rwfv

Aliases

CVE-2021-21366

Published

2021-03-12T22:39:39Z

Modified

2023-11-01T05:17:06.305539Z

Severity

4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator

Summary

Misinterpretation of malicious XML input

Details

Impact

xmldom versions 0.4.0 and older do not correctly preserve system identifiers, FPIs or namespaces when repeatedly parsing and serializing maliciously crafted documents.

This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications.

Patches

Update to 0.5.0 (once it is released)

Workarounds

Downstream applications can validate the input and reject the maliciously crafted documents.

References

Similar to this one reported on the Go standard library:

https://mattermost.com/blog/coordinated-disclosure-go-xml-vulnerabilities/

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Open an issue in xmldom/xmldom
Email us: send an email to all addresses that are shown by npm owner ls xmldom

Database specific

{
    "nvd_published_at": "2021-03-12T17:15:00Z",
    "github_reviewed_at": "2021-03-12T16:21:24Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-115",
        "CWE-436"
    ]
}

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

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

0.5.0