Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA

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    "title": "Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:42.284634220Z",
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  "published_at": "2025-08-20T20:08:49.481+00:00"
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