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Apache Tika Toolkit Faces Critical 10.0-Rated Vulnerability

First seen 8 Dec 2025, 02:50 UTC

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ThreatCluster March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

The Apache Foundation has issued a warning regarding a critical 10.0-rated vulnerability in its Tika toolkit, which is used for metadata extraction from over 1,000 file formats. This follows a previously reported 8.4-rated flaw (CVE-2025-54988) that allowed XML External Entity injection via crafted XFA files in PDFs. The new vulnerability is identified as CVE-2025-66516.

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