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high 8.7

CVE-2026-83616 json

xmldom: Processing Instruction Target Injection Bypasses requireWellFormed

published 2mo ago modified 2mo ago also EUVD-2026-69239 , GHSA-c7q8-3ch8-vqpv

cvss
8.7
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 49%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

xmldom is a pure JavaScript W3C standard-based (XML DOM Level 2 Core) DOMParser and XMLSerializer module. Prior to @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12, and in xmldom version 0.6.0 and earlier, Document.createProcessingInstruction(target, data) in lib/dom.js accepts an unvalidated target, while the requireWellFormed: true serializer checks only for a colon and the reserved case-insensitive xml name on 0.9.x and performs no target check on 0.8.x. Because serialization emits <?target data?>, a target containing >, ?, whitespace, or another invalid XML-name character can break the processing-instruction boundary and inject XML structure. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.

Patch / fix

  • npm @xmldom/xmldom 0.8.15, 0.9.12
  • xmldom_project xmldom 0.8.15, 0.9.12
  • node-xmldom Debian 14 0.9.12-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-83616

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-83616 updated cvss 7.5

xmldom: xmldom: XML Structure Injection via Unvalidated Processing Instruction Targets

  • Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop rh-podman-desktop.git
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Sanitize or validate all target strings passed to Document.createProcessingInstruction() to ensure compliance with XML Name production rules prior to serialization.”
  • Red Hat Fuse 7 xmldom, xmldom-0.1.27.tgz
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Sanitize or validate all target strings passed to Document.createProcessingInstruction() to ensure compliance with XML Name production rules prior to serialization.”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 1789554285
    fixed: vendor fix “Sanitize or validate all target strings passed to Document.createProcessingInstruction() to ensure compliance with XML Name production rules prior to serialization.” RHSA-2026:69248
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1.9 rhdh/rhdh-rhel9-operator 1789552931, rhdh/rhdh-operator-bundle 1789558887 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 grafana Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-mlflow-rhel9
    not affected: component not present
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

Exploits and checks

  • github.com https://github.com/xmldom/xmldom/security/advisories/GHSA-c7q8-3ch8-vqpv referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.7 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm @xmldom/xmldom
>=0.7.0, <0.8.15
>=0.9.0, <0.9.12
0.8.15
0.9.12
npm xmldom
<=0.6.0
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • xmldom xmldom
  • @xmldom xmldom

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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The maintainers of xmldom/xmldom published their own advisory on GitHub. Reviewed sources take precedence over it.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.