### [CVE-2025-54988](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2025-54988)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Apache%20Tika%20PDF%20parser%20module&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=1.13%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-611%20Improper%20Restriction%20of%20XML%20External%20Entity%20Reference&color=brightgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cve-scores
- https://github.com/PuddinCat/GithubRepoSpider
- https://github.com/mgthuramoemyint/POC-CVE-2025-54988
- https://github.com/nomi-sec/PoC-in-GitHub
- https://github.com/righettod/toolbox-pentest-web