Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting libxmljs package, versions >=0.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-LIBXMLJS-10557301
  • published27 Jun 2025
  • disclosed14 Oct 2022
  • creditNed Williamson, Nathan Wachholz

Introduced: 14 Oct 2022

CVE-2022-40304  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for libxmljs.

Overview

libxmljs is a libxml bindings for v8 javascript engine

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) due to dict corruption caused by entity reference cycles.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1