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[CVE-2025-66516] CRITICAL: Apache Tika tika-core 3.0.0 - Parser PDF Module Vulnerability

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
security

Research direction

Start with the workers.jar dependency metadata and the linked NVD or OSV entry to confirm that CVE-2025-66516 affects tika-core 3.0.0 and is fixed in 3.2.2. Locate the dependency declaration that supplies this library, update it to the fixed version, and verify that the vulnerability scan no longer reports the CVE.

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Description

security vulnerability

Vulnerability Report

Field Value
CVE CVE-2025-66516
Severity CRITICAL
Library org.apache.tika:tika-core
Source workers.jar
Installed Version 3.0.0
Fixed Version 3.2.2
Summary

tika-core: tika-parsers: tika-parser-pdf-module: Apache Tika parsers, Apache Tika PDF...

References

Filed from container vulnerability scan of workers.jar

Dominant language
Java
Stars
15
Forks
10
Avg merge
1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d)
3

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