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CVE-2026-25896 critical severity vulnerability in fast-xml-parser 4.5.3 #33434

@MikeMcC399

Description

@MikeMcC399

Current behavior

Trivy and Docker Scout report the critical severity vulnerability CVE-2026-25896 (GHSA-m7jm-9gc2-mpf2) in cypress/included:15.11.0 (current latest) regarding fast-xml-parser@4.5.3.

Desired behavior

There should be no critical severity vulnerabilities reported in cypress/included:latest

Test code to reproduce

trivy image --ignore-unfixed --pkg-types library --scanners vuln --severity CRITICAL cypress/included:15.11.0

Cypress Version

15.11.0

Debug Logs

root/.cache/Cypress/15.11.0/Cypress/resources/app/node_modules/fast-xml-parser/package.json

Node.js (node-pkg)

Total: 2 (CRITICAL: 2)

┌────────────────────────────────┬────────────────┬──────────┬────────┬───────────────────┬───────────────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│            Library             │ Vulnerability  │ Severity │ Status │ Installed Version │ Fixed Version │                            Title                             │
├────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┼──────────┼────────┼───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ basic-ftp (package.json)       │ CVE-2026-27699 │ CRITICAL │ fixed  │ 5.0.3             │ 5.2.0         │ basic-ftp: basic-ftp: File overwrite due to path traversal   │
│                                │                │          │        │                   │               │ https://avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2026-27699                   │
├────────────────────────────────┼────────────────┤          │        ├───────────────────┼───────────────┼──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ fast-xml-parser (package.json) │ CVE-2026-25896 │          │        │ 4.5.3             │ 5.3.5, 4.5.4  │ fast-xml-parser: fast-xml-parser: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) │
│                                │                │          │        │                   │               │ due to improper DOCTYPE entity handling                      │
│                                │                │          │        │                   │               │ https://avd.aquasec.com/nvd/cve-2026-25896                   │
└────────────────────────────────┴────────────────┴──────────┴────────┴───────────────────┴───────────────┴──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Other

Cypress is currently configured with fast-xml-parser@^4.5.3, locked to fast-xml-parser@4.5.3 and this is fixable by updating to fast-xml-parser@4.5.4

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