CVSS 3.1
8.4 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2025-54988
High (8.4) in apache tika. EPSS 48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module 3.2.2.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 98% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-611
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- apache:tika
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x | Maven | org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module | >=1.13 <3.2.2 | 3.2.2 |
| GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x | Maven | org.apache.tika:tika-parsers | >=1.13 <2.0.0-ALPHA | 2.0.0-ALPHA |