DEBIAN-CVE-2025-66516
Record from OSV · Published December 4, 2025
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.
Fixed versions
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| Package | Ecosystem | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| tika | Debian:11 | 1.22-2+deb11u1 |
Risk scores
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | tika | 0, 1.22-2 |
Timeline
- Dec 4, 2025 CVE Published
- Aug 27, 2026 CVE Updated
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