Tika
Description
Apache Tika - a content analysis toolkit The Apache Tika™ toolkit detects and extracts metadata and text from over a thousand different file types (such as PPT, XLS, and PDF). All of these file types can be parsed through a single interface, making Tika useful for search engine indexing, content analysis, translation, and much more. You can find the latest release on the download page. Please see the Getting Started page for more information on how to start using Tika.
Website
Product names
Tika, Apache Tika, Apache Tika PDF parser module, Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers
Related organization
CVE-2025-66516 (GCVE-0-2025-66516)
Vulnerability from
Published
2025-12-04 16:17
Modified
2025-12-05 18:26
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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.
References
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Impacted products
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Vulnerability from
Published
2025-12-04 16:17
Modified
2025-12-05 18:26
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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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.
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Vulnerability from
Published
2025-12-04 16:17
Modified
2025-12-05 18:26
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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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.
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Vulnerability from
Published
2025-08-20 20:08
Modified
2025-11-04 22:06
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-611 - Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Summary
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.
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Version: 1.13 ≤ 3.2.1 |
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Vulnerability from
Published
2021-03-31 07:35
Modified
2025-02-13 16:27
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-835 - Infinite Loop
Summary
A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika 1.25. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.26 or later.
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