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Apache Tika has XXE vulnerability
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.

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 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.

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser.

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's `SQLite3Parser`.

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)
A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika `ChmParser`.

Deserialization of Untrusted Data
Apache Tika allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes `JMatIO` to do native deserialization.

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
In Apache Tika, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a DoS.

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Apache Tika does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls `reset()` after each parse; the parser ignores entity expansion limits after the first parse.

Out of memory
A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's `RecursiveParserWrapper`.

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Apache Tika server (aka tika-server) in Apache Tika 1.9 might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the HTTP fileUrl header.