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CVE-2025-66516

tika-core: tika-parsers: tika-parser-pdf-module: Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected

Published Modified CWE 611
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA10.0CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
Red Hat10.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Red Hat. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

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. This CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. First, 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. Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core, org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module, org.apache.tika:tika-parsers3.2.2 and 1 more
chainguardsolr-9, solr-fips-90
debian 11tika1.22-2+deb11u1
minimosapache-tika-3.0, apache-tika-3.1, elasticsearch-8 and 3 more3.0.0-r5 and 5 more
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseorg.apache.tika:tika-parsers, seal.sp1p1.org.apache.tika:tika-parsers1.28.5+sp2p2 and 1 more
ubuntu 18.04-ESMtikano fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMtika1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
ubuntu 22.04tika1.22-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
ubuntu 24.04tikano fix listed
ubuntu 26.04tikano fix listed
ubuntu 26.10tikano fix listed
Show all 20 entries from 11 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-core3.2.2
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module3.2.2
maven::GitHub Security Advisory Mavenorg.apache.tika:tika-parsers2.0.0
chainguardsolr-90
chainguardsolr-fips-90
debian 11tika1.22-2+deb11u1
minimosapache-tika-3.03.0.0-r5
minimosapache-tika-3.13.1.0-r5
minimoselasticsearch-88.19.3-r0
minimoselasticsearch-9.19.1.4-r0
minimosopensearch-22.19.4-r0
minimosopensearch-33.3.0-r0
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseorg.apache.tika:tika-parsers1.28.5+sp2p2
seal maven::Seal Security Databaseseal.sp1p1.org.apache.tika:tika-parsers1.28.5+sp999
ubuntu 18.04-ESMtikano fix listed
ubuntu 20.04-ESMtika1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
ubuntu 22.04tika1.22-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
ubuntu 24.04tikano fix listed
ubuntu 26.04tikano fix listed
ubuntu 26.10tikano fix listed

References

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