GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF
CRITICAL
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- 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
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988 advisory
- https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/2291 web
- https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/2b52257304f4d3cde2b8463657380bdb936d9ef2 web
- https://archive.apache.org/dist/tika/3.2.2/CHANGES-3.2.2.txt web
- https://github.com/apache/tika package
- https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4459 web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w web
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/stn9oh7rfn9yv76n1srxr9w56oy04p72 web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2 web
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3 web