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 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.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner": "apache",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.13"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "3.2.1"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "source": "DESCRIPTION",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "1.13"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-611"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54988.json"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/tika

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/apache/tika

Events

Introduced

386b68b5ae87beafacfb63f33e0a9888dedb9c30

Fixed

c5c9d00e475d48226dfe3f80a2891bfa5426043a

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "1.13"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.2.2"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-54988.json"