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cve-2025-54988
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CVE

CVE-2025-54988

Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF

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.

Base CVSS

9.8

EPSS Score

0.05%

Introduced Version

1.13

Fix Available

3.2.2

Available Patches

Package
CVEs Fixed
Lines of Code Changed
Package Name
org.apache.tika:tika-core
1.28.5
1 CVES Fixed
C
1
H
0
M
0
L
0
Code Changed
+315
-0

References

https://github.com/apache/tika
https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988

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