{"id":"CVE-2025-54988","aliases":["GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2025-54988","summary":"Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA","details":"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.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.","published":"2025-08-20T20:08:49.481Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:20.610499071Z","cvss":{"score":8.4,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":{"score":0.37713,"percentile":0.98462,"asOf":"2026-09-16"},"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":1,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module","fixedVersion":"3.2.2"},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parsers","fixedVersion":"2.0.0-ALPHA"}],"fix":{"url":"https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/2291","label":"apache/tika#2291"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/54xxx/CVE-2025-54988.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/apache/tika/pull/2291"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/2b52257304f4d3cde2b8463657380bdb936d9ef2"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://archive.apache.org/dist/tika/3.2.2/CHANGES-3.2.2.txt"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/apache/tika"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/TIKA-4459"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/stn9oh7rfn9yv76n1srxr9w56oy04p72"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:20.610499071Z"}}