Bug 2389910 (CVE-2025-54988) - CVE-2025-54988 org.apache.tika/tika-parser-pdf-module: Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
Summary: CVE-2025-54988 org.apache.tika/tika-parser-pdf-module: Apache Tika PDF parser...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-54988
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-20 21:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-12-03 11:27 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-20 21:01:21 UTC 
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.
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