CVE-2025-54988
Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
CRITICAL 9.3EPSS 48.5%
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
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache Tika PDF parser module
- CVSS v4.0 GitHub
- 9.3 CRITICAL
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N - CVSS v3.1 CNA
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1 APACHE
- 8.4 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 48.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 99th percentile
- Nuclei
- critical · CWE-611
- Published
- 2025-08-20
- Updated
- 2026-02-26
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- mgthuramoemyint/POC-CVE-2025-5498820★ · 2025-09-04