GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability

CRITICAL Published 2025-12-04 Modified 2025-12-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-66516
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tika:tika-core, org.apache.tika:tika-parsers, org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2025-12-05

Affected packages

• Maven org.apache.tika:tika-core: >= 1.13, < 3.2.2 → fixed in 3.2.2 • Maven org.apache.tika:tika-parsers: >= 1.13, < 2.0.0 → fixed in 2.0.0 • Maven org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module: >= 2.0.0, < 3.2.2 → fixed in 3.2.2

Description

Critical XXE in Apache Tika tika-core (1.13-3.2.1), tika-pdf-module (2.0.0-3.2.1) and tika-parsers (1.13-1.28.5) modules on all platforms allows an attacker to carry out XML External Entity injection via a crafted XFA file inside of a PDF. This CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. First, while the entrypoint for the vulnerability was the tika-parser-pdf-module as reported in CVE-2025-54988, the vulnerability and its fix were in tika-core. Users who upgraded the tika-parser-pdf-module but did not upgrade tika-core to >= 3.2.2 would still be vulnerable. Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-66516 Critical XXE in Apache Tika tika-core (1.13-3.2.1), tika-pdf-module (2.0.0-3.2.1) and tika-parsers (1.13-1.28.5) modules on all platforms… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-611 Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference weakness

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