Severity: critical Affected versions:
- Apache Tika PDF parser module (org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module) 1.13 through 3.2.1 Description: 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. Credit: Paras Jain and Yakov Shafranovich of Amazon. (reporter) References: https://tika.apache.org/ https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988
