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CVE-2025-66516

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.4
EPSS
0.78785
Risk score
61.17
CISA KEV
No
PoC
No
Published
2025-12-04
Modified
2026-02-26
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2025-201189, GHSA-F58C-GQ56-VJJF
Products
Apache Software Foundation:Apache Tika PDF parser module 2.0.0 ≤3.2.1, Apache Software Foundation:Apache Tika core 1.13 ≤3.2.1, Apache Software Foundation:Apache Tika parsers 1.13 <2.0.0
Sources
euvd EUVD-2025-201189

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.

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