# CVE-2026-66755: Apache Tika: Arbitrary Local File Read in ISArchiveParser

- Severity: CVSS 5.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/AU:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.3.2, 4.0.0-beta-1
- Published: 2026-07-30 · Updated: 2026-09-01

## Affected

- org.apache.tika:tika-parser-scientific-module: from 1.8, fixed in 3.3.2; from 4.0.0-alpha-1, fixed in 4.0.0-beta-1

## Description

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 "Study Assay File Name" value in the ISA-Tab investigation file that traverses outside the dataset directory. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.3.2 or 4.0.0-beta-1, which fixes this issue.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on org.apache.tika:tika-parser-scientific-module, upgrade to a fixed version (3.3.2, 4.0.0-beta-1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://lists.apache.org/thread/0hcctcp9s5lxgq2ookp4o6chltk99f8r

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