{"cve":"CVE-2025-66516","nvd":{"published":"2025-12-04T17:15:57.120","modified":"2026-06-17T09:56:58.233","status":"Modified","description":"Critical XXE in Apache Tika tika-core (1.13-3.2.1), tika-pdf-module (2.0.0-3.2.1) and tika-parsers (1.13-1.28.5) modules on all platforms allows an attacker to carry out XML External Entity injection via a crafted XFA file inside of a PDF. \n\nThis CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. \n\nFirst, while the entrypoint for the vulnerability was the tika-parser-pdf-module as reported in CVE-2025-54988, the vulnerability and its fix were in tika-core. Users who upgraded the tika-parser-pdf-module but did not upgrade tika-core to >= 3.2.2 would still be vulnerable. \n\nSecond, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the \"org.apache.tika:tika-parsers\" module.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":{"version":"3.1","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","score":9.8},"cwes":["CWE-611"],"references":["https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988","https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k"],"products":["apache:tika"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T22:16:40.427100871+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2025-66516","score":0.88976,"percentile":0.99779,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[{"id":"GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf","summary":"Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability","modified":"2025-12-05T03:42:51.706106Z","packages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-core","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-core","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"],"fixed":["2.0.0"]},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module","purl":"pkg:maven/org.apache.tika/tika-parser-pdf-module","ranges":[">=2.0.0 <3.2.2"],"fixed":["3.2.2"]}]}],"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."]}