Apache Tika vulnerabilities

27 CVEs affecting Apache Tika, 0 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2026-66756, published 2026-07-30.

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CVE-2018-1335, published 2018-04-25. High severity, CVSS 8.1. EPSS: 93.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. From Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17, clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running tika-server. This…
CVE-2025-66516, published 2025-12-04. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2025-54988, published 2025-08-20. 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…
CVE-2021-33813, published 2021-06-16. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 19.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request.
CVE-2018-11761, published 2018-09-19. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 9.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service…
CVE-2016-6809, published 2017-04-06. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.
CVE-2018-11796, published 2018-10-09. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the…
CVE-2015-3271, published 2016-12-15. Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache Tika server (aka tika-server) in Apache Tika 1.9 might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the HTTP fileUrl header.
CVE-2018-17197, published 2018-12-24. Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.
CVE-2018-11762, published 2018-09-19. Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Tika 0.9 to 1.18, in a rare edge case where a user does not specify an extract directory on the commandline (--extract-dir=) and the input file has an embedded file with an absolute path,…

Latest

CVE-2026-66756, published 2026-07-30. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in Apache Tika. This issue affects Apache Tika: from 4.0.0-alpha-1 before 4.0.0-beta-1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.0-beta-1,…
CVE-2026-66755, published 2026-07-30. High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 through 3.3.1, and 4.0.0-alpha-1, allows an attacker who can place files in a directory that the…
CVE-2022-33879, published 2022-06-27. Low severity, CVSS 3.3. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The initial fixes in CVE-2022-30126 and CVE-2022-30973 for regexes in the StandardsExtractingContentHandler were insufficient, and we found a separate, new regex DoS in a different regex in the…
CVE-2022-30973, published 2022-05-31. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. We failed to apply the fix for CVE-2022-30126 to the 1.x branch in the 1.28.2 release. In Apache Tika, a regular expression in the StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler…
CVE-2022-30126, published 2022-05-16. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache Tika, a regular expression in our StandardsText class, used by the StandardsExtractingContentHandler could lead to a denial of service caused by backtracking on a specially crafted file.…
CVE-2022-25169, published 2022-05-16. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. The BPG parser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.28.2 and 2.4.0 may allocate an unreasonable amount of memory on carefully crafted files.
CVE-2021-28657, published 2021-03-31. Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika 1.25. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.26 or later.