{"cve":"CVE-2025-54988","nvd":{"published":"2025-08-20T20:15:33.070","modified":"2026-06-17T09:41:04.330","status":"Modified","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.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":8.4},"cwes":["CWE-611"],"references":["https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2","http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3","https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html"],"products":["apache:tika"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:07:46.309729541+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-54988","score":0.47948,"percentile":0.98855,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x","summary":"Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF","modified":"2026-09-10T03:50:27.356293343Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-parser-pdf-module","ranges":[">=1.13 <3.2.2"],"fixed":["3.2.2"]},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parsers","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-parsers","ranges":[">=1.13 <2.0.0-ALPHA"],"fixed":["2.0.0-ALPHA"]}]}],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}