CVE-2025-54988

Name	CVE-2025-54988
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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	1111763

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
tika (PTS)	sid, bullseye	1.22-2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
tika	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)			1111763

Notes

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3
Fixed by: https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/bfee6d5569fe9197c4ea947a96e212825184ca33 (main)
Fixed by: https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/94acef2854eed07f0ded357c13a659409495ca49 (3.2.2)