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Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 2, 2022· Updated Apr 22, 2025

xmldom allows multiple root nodes in a DOM

CVE-2022-39353

Description

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. 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 issuance of CVE-2022-39299 as it is a potential issue for dependents. 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). As a workaround, please one of the following approaches depending on your use case: instead of searching for elements in the whole DOM, only search in the documentElementor reject a document with a document that has more then 1 childNode.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
xmldomnpm
<= 0.6.0
@xmldom/xmldomnpm
< 0.7.70.7.7
@xmldom/xmldomnpm
>= 0.8.0, < 0.8.40.8.4
@xmldom/xmldomnpm
>= 0.9.0-beta.1, < 0.9.0-beta.40.9.0-beta.4

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