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Advisory record · GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x

Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF

CVSS 8.4 HighCriticalEPSS 0.48 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 8.4 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.48 (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 20 Aug 2025, 21:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-moduleMaven>=1.13, <3.2.23.2.2
org.apache.tika:tika-parsersMaven>=1.13, <2.0.0-ALPHA2.0.0-ALPHA
Identifiers
GHSA-p72g-pv48-7w9x · CVE-2025-54988
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-611
Tags
Published
20 Aug 2025
Updated
10 Sept 2026

Machine-written summary

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

Apache Tika's tika-parser-pdf-module is vulnerable from version 1.13 through 3.2.1, and the tika-parsers package is affected from 1.13 before 2.0.0-ALPHA. An attacker who can supply a crafted PDF containing a malicious XFA file can perform XML External Entity injection, which may allow reading sensitive data or triggering requests to internal or third-party servers. Upgrade tika-parser-pdf-module to 3.2.2; the tika-parsers package is fixed in 2.0.0-ALPHA.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

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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 0.48, the 98th percentile, on 7 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 14:17 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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