Apache Tika vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-1335 [HIGH] CVE-2018-1335: From Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17, clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server t From Apache Tika versions 1.7 to 1.17, clients could send carefully crafted headers to tika-server that could be used to inject commands into the command line of the server running tika-server. This vulnerability only affects those running tika-server on a server that is open to untrusted clients. The mitigation is to upgrade to Tika 1.18.

CVE-2025-66516 [CRITICAL] CVE-2025-66516: Critical XXE in Apache Tika tika-core (1.13-3.2.1), tika-pdf-module (2.0.0-3.2.1) and tika-parsers ( 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 package

CVE-2025-54988 [HIGH] CWE-611 CVE-2025-54988: Critical XXE in Apache Tika (tika-parser-pdf-module) in Apache Tika 1.13 through and including 3.2.1 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

CVE-2016-6809 [CRITICAL] CWE-502 CVE-2016-6809: Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. Apache Tika before 1.14 allows Java code execution for serialized objects embedded in MATLAB files. The issue exists because Tika invokes JMatIO to do native deserialization.

CVE-2026-66756 [CRITICAL] CWE-424 CVE-2026-66756: Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in Apache Tika. This issue affects Apache Tika: Improper Protection of Alternate Path vulnerability in Apache Tika. This issue affects Apache Tika: from 4.0.0-alpha-1 before 4.0.0-beta-1. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.0.0-beta-1, which fixes the issue.

CVE-2026-66755 [HIGH] CWE-22 CVE-2026-66755: Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 thr Relative Path Traversal in the ISA-Tab parser in Apache Software Foundation Apache Tika from 1.8 through 3.3.1, and 4.0.0-alpha-1, allows an attacker who can place files in a directory that the application subsequently parses to read arbitrary files accessible to the Tika process and have their contents emitted into the extracted text output, via a "St

CVE-2021-33813 [HIGH] CWE-611 CVE-2021-33813: An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a An XXE issue in SAXBuilder in JDOM through 2.0.6 allows attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted HTTP request.

CVE-2019-10088 [HIGH] CWE-770 CVE-2019-10088: A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in A carefully crafted or corrupt zip file can cause an OOM in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21. Users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

CVE-2018-11761 [HIGH] CWE-611 CVE-2018-11761: In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were In Apache Tika 0.1 to 1.18, the XML parsers were not configured to limit entity expansion. They were therefore vulnerable to an entity expansion vulnerability which can lead to a denial of service attack.

CVE-2016-4434 [HIGH] CVE-2016-4434: Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might Apache Tika before 1.13 does not properly initialize the XML parser or choose handlers, which might allow remote attackers to conduct XML External Entity (XXE) attacks via vectors involving (1) spreadsheets in OOXML files and (2) XMP metadata in PDF and other file formats, a related issue to CVE-2016-2175.

CVE-2018-11796 [HIGH] CVE-2018-11796: In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, T In Apache Tika 1.19 (CVE-2018-11761), we added an entity expansion limit for XML parsing. However, Tika reuses SAXParsers and calls reset() after each parse, which, for Xerces2 parsers, as per the documentation, removes the user-specified SecurityManager and thus removes entity expansion limits after the first parse. Apache Tika versions from 0.1 to 1.19 are

CVE-2015-3271 [MEDIUM] CWE-200 CVE-2015-3271: Apache Tika server (aka tika-server) in Apache Tika 1.9 might allow remote attackers to read arbitra Apache Tika server (aka tika-server) in Apache Tika 1.9 might allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via the HTTP fileUrl header.

CVE-2019-10094 [HIGH] CWE-770 CVE-2019-10094: A carefully crafted package/compressed file that, when unzipped/uncompressed yields the same file (a A carefully crafted package/compressed file that, when unzipped/uncompressed yields the same file (a quine), causes a StackOverflowError in Apache Tika's RecursiveParserWrapper in versions 1.7-1.21. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

CVE-2018-11762 [MEDIUM] CWE-22 CVE-2018-11762: In Apache Tika 0.9 to 1.18, in a rare edge case where a user does not specify an extract directory o In Apache Tika 0.9 to 1.18, in a rare edge case where a user does not specify an extract directory on the commandline (--extract-dir=) and the input file has an embedded file with an absolute path, such as "C:/evil.bat", tika-app would overwrite that file.

CVE-2018-17197 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 CVE-2018-17197: A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser A carefully crafted or corrupt sqlite file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's SQLite3Parser in versions 1.8-1.19.1 of Apache Tika.

CVE-2019-10093 [MEDIUM] CWE-770 CVE-2019-10093: In Apache Tika 1.19 to 1.21, a carefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available S In Apache Tika 1.19 to 1.21, a carefully crafted 2003ml or 2006ml file could consume all available SAXParsers in the pool and lead to very long hangs. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.22 or later.

CVE-2020-1950 [MEDIUM] CWE-400 CVE-2020-1950: A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause excessive memory usage in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

CVE-2020-1951 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 CVE-2020-1951: A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in ver A carefully crafted or corrupt PSD file can cause an infinite loop in Apache Tika's PSDParser in versions 1.0-1.23.

CVE-2021-28657 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 CVE-2021-28657: A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and inclu A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger an infinite loop in Tika's MP3Parser up to and including Tika 1.25. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.26 or later.

CVE-2020-9489 [MEDIUM] CWE-835 CVE-2020-9489: A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger a System.exit in Tika's OneNote Parser. Crafted or c A carefully crafted or corrupt file may trigger a System.exit in Tika's OneNote Parser. Crafted or corrupted files can also cause out of memory errors and/or infinite loops in Tika's ICNSParser, MP3Parser, MP4Parser, SAS7BDATParser, OneNoteParser and ImageParser. Apache Tika users should upgrade to 1.24.1 or later. The vulnerabilities in the MP4Parser