Bug#1111763: tika: CVE-2025-54988

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: tika
Version: 1.22-2
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: carnil at debian.org, Debian Security Team <team at security.debian.org>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for tika.

CVE-2025-54988[0]:
| 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.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-54988
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/08/20/3
[2] https://github.com/apache/tika/commit/94acef2854eed07f0ded357c13a659409495ca49

Regards,
Salvatore