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GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x

Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2025-54988

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
Maven org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module >= 1.13, < 3.2.2 3.2.2
Maven org.apache.tika:tika-parsers >= 1.13, < 2.0.0-ALPHA 2.0.0-ALPHA

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.