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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.
| Product | Vendor Advisory | Solution File | Added | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Coldfusion | — | Upgrade Adobe ColdFusion to the latest version | Jun 11, 2026 | Jan 13, 2026 |
| Apache Solr | — | Upgrade Apache Solr to the latest version | Mar 18, 2026 | Jan 15, 2025 |
| Atlassian Jira | — | Upgrade to the latest version of Atlassian JIRA | Dec 12, 2025 | Dec 11, 2025 |
| Debian | — | Upgrade tika | Jan 5, 2026 | Jan 5, 2026 |
| Red Hat Jboss Eap | — | — | Dec 8, 2025 | Dec 4, 2025 |
| Ubuntu | — | Upgrade libtika-java (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade libtika-java | May 28, 2026 | May 27, 2026 |
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