CVE-2026-83619: xmldom: End-tag Whitespace-Trim Regex ReDoS — quadratic backtracking in the 0.8.x end-tag parser
On the @xmldom/xmldom 0.8.x line, parsing an XML end tag whose name is followed by a long run
of whitespace and then a non-whitespace character triggers quadratic-time regular-expression
backtracking (ReDoS), so a single small crafted end tag stalls the Node.js event loop. It is reachable
from DOMParser.parseFromString under default options, unauthenticated, before any validity
check — an availability-only denial of service. The 0.9.x line is not affected.
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