Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA
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 o…
Severity high: primary CNA CVSS 8.4 v3.1 (worst CNA-provided scenario) Not listed in this KEV snapshot. Forecast present in this snapshot.
Published 2025-08-20T20:08:49.481Z. Updated 2026-02-26T17:48:22.169Z.