CVE-2025-54988
tika - security update
Description
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 file inside of a PDF. An attacker may be able to read sensitive data or trigger malicious requests to internal resources or third-party servers. Note that the tika-parser-pdf-module is used as a dependency in several Tika packages including at least: tika-parsers-standard-modules, tika-parsers-standard-package, tika-app, tika-grpc and tika-server-standard. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue.
How to fix CVE-2025-54988
To remediate CVE-2025-54988, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.22-2+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 1.22-2+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 3.2.2 or later
- —upgrade to 2.0.0-ALPHA or later
Is CVE-2025-54988 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (4)
- from 0, < 1.22-2+deb11u1
- from 0, < 1.22-2+deb11u1
- >= 1.13, < 3.2.2
- >= 1.13, < 2.0.0-ALPHA
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |