CVE-2026-83606
xmldom PI grammar regex ReDoS: quadratic backtracking on unterminated processing instructions
xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. From 0.9.0-beta.9 until 0.9.11, the processing-instruction production in lib/grammar.js lets the greedy S+ separator and lazy Char*? data group repeatedly repartition a long whitespace tail when the required closing ?> is absent. Both parsePI and parseProcessingInstruction apply the expression to the entire remaining source, causing quadratic backtracking during DOMParser.parseFromString() under default options and allowing a small unauthenticated XML input to stall the Node.js event loop. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom version 0.9.11.
| CWE | CWE-400 CWE-1333 |
| Vendor | xmldom |
| Product | xmldom |
| Published | Sep 1, 2026 |
| Last Updated | Sep 1, 2026 |
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