CVE-2025-54988: Apache Tika

High severity, CVSS 8.4. EPSS: 48.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Tika: from 1.13, before 3.2.2 (fixed in 3.2.2)

Published 2025-08-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.