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CVE

GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf

Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability
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CVE

GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf

Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability

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.

Package Versions Affected

Package Version
patch Availability
org.apache.tika:tika-app 2.9.4
Available
Unavailable
org.apache.tika:tika-core 2.9.4
Available
Unavailable
org.apache.tika:tika-app 1.28.5
Available
Unavailable
org.apache.tika:tika-core 1.28.5
Available
Unavailable

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CVSS Version

Severity
Base Score
CVSS Version
Score Vector
C
H
U
8.4
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
C
H
U
0
-
C
H
U
9.8
-
3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Related Resources

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66516, https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988, https://github.com/apache/tika, https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k

Severity

9.8

CVSS Score
0
10

Basic Information

Ecosystem
Base CVSS
9.8
EPSS Probability
0.00018%
EPSS Percentile
0.03683%
Introduced Version
1.17,1.13,2.0.0-ALPHA,2.6.0,3.0.0-BETA,3.0.0-BETA2,2.0.0-BETA,1.15,2.4.0
Fix Available
3.2.2

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