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Vendor revision: Sep 7, 2026See the Microsoft Security Update Guide for the update that applies to your product.
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-83613 and is rated High severity with a CVSS score of 8.7. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
See the Microsoft Security Update Guide for the update that applies to your product.
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, DOMHandler.startElement in lib/dom-parser.js inserts every parsed attribute through setAttributeNode, while NamedNodeMap.setNamedItem in lib/dom.js calls the linear getNamedItem or getNamedItemNS lookup for each insertion.
A well-formed element with many distinct attributes therefore requires quadratic comparisons during DOMParser.parseFromString() and can stall a Node.js event loop before application validation. This issue is fixed in @xmldom/xmldom versions 0.8.15 and 0.9.12; no fixed version is available for xmldom.
Source: NVD