Improper Input Validation Affecting xmldom package, versions *
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (37th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-XMLDOM-1534562
- published 28 Jul 2021
- disclosed 28 Jul 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 28 Jul 2021
CVE-2021-32796 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for xmldom.
Overview
xmldom is an A pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. It does not correctly escape special characters when serializing elements are removed from their ancestor. This may lead to unexpected syntactic changes during XML processing in some downstream applications.
Note: Customers who use "xmldom" package, should use "@xmldom/xmldom" instead, as "xmldom" is no longer maintained.
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