UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-66516
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516
Upstream
Published
2025-12-04T17:15:00Z
Modified
2026-01-20T19:12:07.375009Z
Severity
  • 8.4 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 10.0 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-4ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-2
1.5-3
1.5-4
1.5-4ubuntu0.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.5-4ubuntu0.1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.5-5?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.5-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.5-5"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"

Ubuntu:24.04:LTS

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=noble

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"

Ubuntu:25.10

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2?arch=source&distro=questing

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.22-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focal

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.22-1
1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-1ubuntu0.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"

Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS

tika

Package

Name
tika
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/tika@1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*

1.22-2
1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libtika-java",
            "binary_version": "1.22-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2025/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-66516.json"