Apache Tika CVE-2025-54988

Summary

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.

Version Affected Solution
FortiDLP 12.2 12.2.1 through 12.2.2 Upgrade to 12.2.3 or above
FortiDLP 12.1 12.1 all versions Migrate to a fixed release
FortiDLP 12.0 12.0 all versions Migrate to a fixed release
FortiDLP 11.5 11.5 all versions Migrate to a fixed release
FortiDLP 11.4 11.4 all versions Migrate to a fixed release
FortiDLP 11.3 11.3 all versions Migrate to a fixed release
FortiDLP 11.2 Not affected Not Applicable
FortiDLP 10.4 Not affected Not Applicable
FortiDLP 6.0 Not affected Not Applicable

Timeline

2025-10-14: Initial publication