# org.apache.tika:tika-parsers (Maven) vulnerabilities

5 known vulnerabilities (2 high), with the versions each affects and the releases that fix them.

## At a glance

- Latest release: 4.2.0 (Oct 25, 2026): no advisory affects it
- Newest unaffected release: 4.2.0 (Oct 25, 2026), the latest release
- Dependents: 12
- Releases: 78 since 0.4 (Jul 27, 2009)
- Registry: https://central.sonatype.com/artifact/org.apache.tika/tika-parsers
- Releases read: Nov 8, 2026

## Version timeline

Affected versions per advisory, in version order:

- CVE-2025-66516: 1.13 to 2.0.0-BETA (2.0.0 is outside it)
- CVE-2025-54988: 1.13 to 1.28.5 (2.0.0-ALPHA is outside it)
- CVE-2019-10093: 1.19 to 1.21 (1.22 is outside it)
- CVE-2018-17197: 1.8 to 1.19.1 (1.20 is outside it)
- CVE-2018-1339: 0.4 to 1.17 (1.18 is outside it)

## Advisories (5)

### [CVE-2025-66516](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-66516): Apache Tika core, Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF parser module: Update to CVE-2025-54988 to expand scope of artifacts affected

- Severity: High 8.4
- Published: Dec 4, 2025
- Affected: from 1.13, fixed in 2.0.0; from 1.13, fixed in 2.0.0.
- Fixed in 2.0.0 (released Jul 14, 2021, 1604 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 4.2.0, is not affected.

### [CVE-2025-54988](https://cve.now/CVE-2025-54988): Apache Tika PDF parser module: XXE vulnerability in PDFParser's handling of XFA

- Severity: High 8.4
- Published: Aug 20, 2025
- Affected: from 1.13, fixed in 2.0.0-ALPHA.
- Fixed in 2.0.0-ALPHA (released Jan 13, 2021, 1680 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 4.2.0, is not affected.

### [CVE-2019-10093](https://cve.now/CVE-2019-10093): 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…

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Aug 2, 2019
- Affected: from 1.19, fixed in 1.22.
- Fixed in 1.22 (released Jul 29, 2019, 4 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 4.2.0, is not affected.

### [CVE-2018-17197](https://cve.now/CVE-2018-17197): 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.

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Dec 24, 2018
- Affected: from 1.8, fixed in 1.20.
- Fixed in 1.20 (released Dec 18, 2018, 6 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 4.2.0, is not affected.

### [CVE-2018-1339](https://cve.now/CVE-2018-1339): A carefully crafted (or fuzzed) file can trigger an infinite loop in Apache Tika's ChmParser in versions of Apache Tika before 1.18.

- Severity: Unrated
- Published: Apr 25, 2018
- Affected: fixed in 1.18.
- Fixed in 1.18 (released Apr 20, 2018, 5 days before disclosure).
- The latest release, 4.2.0, is not affected.

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