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CRITICAL

CVE-2025-66516

CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

EPSS Score

89.0 %

exploit probability, as of 2026-10-18

CISA KEV

No

known exploited

Exploitation

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SSVC status

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Affected and fixed versions

Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.

version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.

Packages

  • org.apache.tika:tika-coreMavenfrom 1.13 · fixed in 3.2.2
  • org.apache.tika:tika-parser-pdf-moduleMavenfrom 2.0.0 · fixed in 3.2.2
  • org.apache.tika:tika-parsersMavenfrom 1.13 · fixed in 2.0.0

Vendor advisories

  • CVE-2025-66516 Red Hat Product Security9 products fixed

    tika-core: tika-parsers: tika-parser-pdf-module: Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected

  • RHSA-2025:23225 Red Hat Product Security8 products fixed

    Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.25.0 Release.

  • RHSA-2025:23143 Red Hat Product Security1 product fixed

    Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Build of Apache Camel 4.14.2 for Spring Boot release.

Full record on NVD

Description

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.

Technical details

Published
2025-12-04

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-66516?

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.

Is CVE-2025-66516 actively exploited?

Active exploitation of CVE-2025-66516 has not been confirmed. Its EPSS score was 89.0% on 2026-10-18, the estimated probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2025-66516?

CVE-2025-66516 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL severity).

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