CVE-2025-66516

CVE Enrichment

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS: 88.98%
EPSS Percentile: 99.78%
CISA KEV: Not listed

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.

Technical Details

CVSS Version: 3.1
CNA / NVD Source: security@apache.org
Published: 05-Dec-2025 00:15
Last Modified: 17-Jun-2026 16:56
EPSS Date: 2026-10-12
CWE: CWE-611

CVSS Vector


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

Affected Products / Versions

apache / tika
Version / affected range: * · from (inclusive) 1.13 · before (exclusive) 3.2.2
cpe:2.3:a:apache:tika:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References

Last enrichment sync: 13-Oct-2026 00:30
Sources: NVD · FIRST EPSS · CISA KEV
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Reported Context (1)

CVE reference: CVE-2025-66516 Metasploit 6.5.4 Adds 16 Modules, Including Exploits for Five CISA KEV Vulnerabilities

CVE (12)

People (17)

Products (13)

Tools (1)

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