CVE-2025-53689: Apache Jackrabbit

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Blind XXE Vulnerabilities in jackrabbit-spi-commons and jackrabbit-core in Apache Jackrabbit < 2.23.2 due to usage of an unsecured document build to load privileges. Users are recommended to upgrade to versions 2.20.17 (Java 8), 2.22.1 (Java 11) or 2.23.2 (Java 11, beta versions), which fix this issue. Earlier versions (up to 2.20.16) are not supported anymore, thus users should update to the respective supported version.

Affected products

• Apache Jackrabbit: from 2.20.0, before 2.20.17 (fixed in 2.20.17); version 2.22.0 only; version 2.23.0 only; version 2.23.1 only

Published 2025-07-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.