Advisories for Maven/Org.apache.tika/Tika-Parser-Pdf-Module package

2025

Apache Tika XXE Vulnerability via Crafted XFA File Inside a PDF

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 …