CVE-2025-54988 – Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability

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CVE-2025-54988 vulnerability over time.

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  • New CVE Received
    by [email protected]

    Aug. 20, 2025

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.

    Added CWE CWE-611
    Added Reference https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w
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