8.7

CVE-2026-83615: xmldom: Quadratic-memory consumption

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AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-83615DEBIAN-CVE-2026-83615GHSA-965w-775f-mr7g
Published 01-09-2026Last modified 03-09-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-83615 is a high (CVSS 8.7) vulnerability in xmldom. EPSS estimates a 0.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 8.7 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 1% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.59%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 01-09-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 03-09-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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 versions 0.1.5 through 0.6.0, appendElement in lib/sax.js uses _copy to clone the complete currentNSMap for each nested element that declares a new namespace prefix. Keeping every ancestor map live on the parse stack creates quadratic peak namespace-map storage, so a small highly compressible XML document can exhaust the process heap 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.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.59%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

48%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 0.59% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Chainguard3 products
  • gitlab-rails-ce-18.11< 18.11.11-r2
  • gitlab-rails-ce-19.0All versions (No fix recorded) | < 19.0.10-r0
  • gitlab-rails-ce-fips-19.0< 19.0.9-r3
@xmldom1 product
  • xmldom≥ 0.7.0, < 0.8.15 | ≥ 0.9.0, < 0.9.12
Debian1 product
  • node-xmldomAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.9.12-1
Npm1 product
  • xmldom≥ 0.1.5, ≤ 0.6.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • node-xmldomAll versions (No fix recorded)
Xmldom1 product
  • xmldom≥ 0.1.5, ≤ 0.6.0 | ≥ 0.7.0, < 0.8.15 | ≥ 0.9.0, < 0.9.12

6 vendors · 8 products

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