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.
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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.
Title Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
Weaknesses CWE-611
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published: 2025-08-20T20:08:49.481Z

Updated: 2025-08-20T20:08:49.481Z

Reserved: 2025-08-04T16:04:26.626Z

Link: CVE-2025-54988

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-08-20T20:15:33.070

Modified: 2025-08-20T20:15:33.070

Link: CVE-2025-54988

cve-icon Redhat

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