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.
The product processes an XML document that can contain XML entities with URIs that resolve to documents outside of the intended sphere of control, causing the product to embed incorrect documents into its output.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tika | Apache | 1.13 (including) | 3.2.2 (excluding) |
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4.14.2 for Spring Boot 3.5.8 | RedHat | tika-core | * |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.25 | RedHat | devspaces/openvsx-rhel9:sha256:5b136fff0f0c8ff4d56fdb934eef1dd7d04ebdac13e7cb8c1e020bf370f4df84 | * |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces (RHOSDS) 3.25 | RedHat | devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9:sha256:f67c1d7d8549587c1032404411b01472f71e775a7bbfd91927060c1b09a631c0 | * |