CVE-2025-54988: Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tika PDF parser module
Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika PDF parser module · Exploitation: check available, not yet exploited
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DescriptionCVE.org
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 products1
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tika PDF parser modulefrom 1.13 up to and including 3.2.1
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- Exploitation
- Check available, not yet exploited. A public nuclei template can confirm it on a system you are authorised to test.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- Apache Tika - XXE Injection · nuclei template in projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates
- Published
- August 2025
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