XML External Entity (XXE) Injection Affecting opensearch-2-skills package, versions <2.19.4-r0
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- published7 Dec 2025
- disclosed4 Dec 2025
Introduced: 4 Dec 2025
NewCVE-2025-66516 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Minimos:latest opensearch-2-skills to version 2.19.4-r0 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream opensearch-2-skills package and not the opensearch-2-skills package as distributed by Minimos.
See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.
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 packages in two ways.
First, while the entrypoint for the vulnerability was the tika-parser-pdf-module as reported in CVE-2025-54988, the vulnerability and its fix were in tika-core. Users who upgraded the tika-parser-pdf-module but did not upgrade tika-core to >= 3.2.2 would still be vulnerable.
Second, the original report failed to mention that in the 1.x Tika releases, the PDFParser was in the "org.apache.tika:tika-parsers" module.
References
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-66516
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-f58c-gq56-vjjf
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MINI-544p-mwgc-mh5g
- https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-66516
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-54988
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/s5x3k93nhbkqzztp1olxotoyjpdlps9k