PT-2025-48982
CVE-2025-12084
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Published
2025-12-01
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Updated
2026-09-17
Description by
CVSS 4.0
6.3
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
xml.dom.minidom (affected versions not specified)
Description
The software experiences a performance issue when constructing deeply nested XML documents using methods like
appendChild(). This is due to a quadratic algorithm within the clear id cache() function, which is triggered when building nested elements. This can lead to availability impacts when processing excessively complex documents.Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploitability
Exploit
Impacts
Researchers
Vendors
Affected products
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