{"id":"CVE-2025-66516","aliases":["GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2025-66516","summary":"Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected","details":"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. \n\nThis CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. \n\nFirst, 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. \n\nSecond, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the \"org.apache.tika:tika-parsers\" module.","published":"2025-12-04T16:17:24.980Z","modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:27.884499517Z","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":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":2,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-core","fixedVersion":"3.2.2"},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parsers","fixedVersion":"2.0.0"},{"ecosystem":"Maven","name":"org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module","fixedVersion":"3.2.2"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/66xxx/CVE-2025-66516.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66516"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-08-12T03:51:27.884499517Z"}}