CVE-2025-54988 — Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation / Apache Tika PDF parser module	affected 1.13 through 3.2.1

CWE

CWE-611

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3