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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-54988

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The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. 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 the tika-parser-pdf-module is used as a dependency in several Tika packages including at least: tika-parsers-standard-modules, tika-parsers-standard-package, tika-app, tika-grpc and tika-server-standard. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.2.2, which fixes this issue. (CVE-2025-54988) Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor. File data…Read More

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