CVE-2025-54988

Publication date 20 August 2025

Last updated 27 May 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
tika	26.04 LTS resolute	Vulnerable
	25.10 questing	Vulnerable
	25.04 plucky	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	24.04 LTS noble	Vulnerable
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed 1.22-2+deb11u1build0.22.04.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of ESM support, was needs-triage

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Notes

john-breton

tika is FTBFS on bionic, noble and up due to OpenJDK incompatability. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tika/+bug/2045822 for more information.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-8324-1
Apache Tika vulnerabilities
27 May 2026