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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. This CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. First, 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. Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.
- Products
- tika
- Affected versions
- 1.22-1, 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 1.22-2, 1.5-5
- Fixed versions
- 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2, 1.22-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
- CVEs
- CVE-2025-66516
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:55 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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. This CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. First, 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. Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516
tika
Fixed versions: Not specified
tika
Fixed versions: 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
tika
Fixed versions: 1.22-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
tika
Fixed versions: Not specified
tika
Fixed versions: Not specified
tika
Fixed versions: Not specified
tika
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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