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Critical severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 20, 2025· Updated Feb 26, 2026

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

CVE-2025-54988

Description

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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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-moduleMaven
>= 1.13, < 3.2.23.2.2
org.apache.tika:tika-parsersMaven
>= 1.13, < 2.0.0-ALPHA2.0.0-ALPHA

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