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CVE-2025-66516

8.4
HIGHCVSS v3.1 Base Score
1.58%
LOW RiskEPSS (82nd percentile)

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.

Published: 12/4/2025
Modified: 12/30/2025
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Vulnerability Summary

CVSS v3 Score

8.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS Score (Exploitation Probability)

1.58%LOW Exploitation Risk
82nd percentile

This vulnerability has a 1.58% probability of being exploited in the next 30 days, ranking higher than 82% of all scored CVEs.

CWE Classification

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