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Advisory record · GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf

Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability

CVSS 8.4 HighCriticalEPSS 0.89 · 99th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 8.4 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.89 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 4 Dec 2025, 18:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.tika:tika-coreMaven>=1.13, <3.2.23.2.2
org.apache.tika:tika-parsersMaven>=1.13, <2.0.02.0.0
org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-moduleMaven>=2.0.0, <3.2.23.2.2
Identifiers
GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf · CVE-2025-66516
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Tags
Published
4 Dec 2025
Updated
5 Dec 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Apache Tika tika-core (1.13 to before 3.2.2), tika-parser-pdf-module (2.0.0 to before 3.2.2) and tika-parsers (1.13 to before 2.0.0) contain an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability triggered by a crafted XFA file inside a PDF. An attacker who can get Tika to parse such a PDF can carry out XXE injection. Upgrade tika-core and tika-parser-pdf-module to 3.2.2, and tika-parsers to 2.0.0 or later.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
8.4 High 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CNA (apache)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.89, the 99th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:09 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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