CVE-2025-66516
CVE.org · Published
- Record status
- Published
- Identifier year (not publication year)
- 2025
- Source publication
- Source updated
- Imported by cveboard
- Source snapshot
- cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline ·
CNA source text (English)
Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected
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 via a crafted XFA file inside of a PDF. This CVE covers the same vulnerability as in CVE-2025-54988. However, this CVE expands the scope of affected packages in two ways. First, while the entrypoint for the vulnerability was the tika-parser-pdf-module as reported in CVE-2025-54988, the vulnerability and its fix were in tika-core. Users who upgraded the tika-parser-pdf-module but did not upgrade tika-core to >= 3.2.2 would still be vulnerable. Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.
Scoped product and version facts
Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.
Apache Tika core
- Vendor
- Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Tika core
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.apache.tika:tika-core
- Package collection
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 3.2.1 | None listed |
Apache Tika parsers
- Vendor
- Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Tika parsers
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.apache.tika:tika-parsers
- Package collection
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | affected | semver | 2.0.0 | Unavailable | None listed |
Apache Tika PDF parser module
- Vendor
- Apache Software Foundation
- Product
- Apache Tika PDF parser module
- Platforms
- Unknown
- Default status
unaffected- Package
- org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-module
- Package collection
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2
| Version (version) | Status (status) | Version scheme (versionType) | Exclusive end (lessThan) | Inclusive end (lessThanOrEqual) | Status changes (at → status) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0.0 | affected | semver | Unavailable | 3.2.1 | None listed |