# CVE-2025-66516: Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected

> CVE-2025-66516: Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected. CVSS 8.4 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-66516
Last updated: 2026-06-17T09:56:58Z

- Published: 2025-12-04 16:17 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 09:56 UTC · Assigner: apache
- CVSS: 8.4 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 89.0%, 100th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-611

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- Apache Software Foundation: Apache Tika core
- Apache Software Foundation: Apache Tika parsers
- Apache Software Foundation: Apache Tika PDF parser module

## Tracked companies

- [Confluence](https://rewindex.com/company/confluence.md)
- [Jira](https://rewindex.com/company/jira.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66516)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-66516)
- [https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988](https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988)
- [https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k](https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-66516 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-66516.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-66516 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:14:44.342Z