CVE-2025-54988

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.

The following products are affected by CVE-2025-54988 vulnerability.

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2025-54988.

URL	Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3
https://lists.apache.org/thread/8xn3rqy6kz5b3l1t83kcofkw0w4mmj1w
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00030.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988