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GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF

CRITICAL Published 2025-08-20 Modified 2025-11-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-54988
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module, org.apache.tika:tika-parsers
Severity
Critical
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-611
Reviewed
2025-08-21

Affected packages

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

Description

Critical XXE in Apache Tika (tika-parser-pdf-module) in Apache Tika 1.13 through and including 3.2.1 on all platforms allows an attacker to carry out XML External Entity injection via a crafted XFA file inside of a PDF. An attacker may be able to read sensitive data or trigger malicious requests to internal resources or third-party servers. Note that the tika-parser-pdf-module is used as a dependency in several Tika packages including at least: tika-parsers-standard-modules, tika-parsers-standard-package, tika-app, tika-grpc and tika-server-standard. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-54988 Critical XXE in Apache Tika (tika-parser-pdf-module) in Apache Tika 1.13 through and including 3.2.1 on all platforms allows an attacker to… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References