As per the CVE, it’s about a vuln in a specific tika module tika-parser-pdf-module, Lucee only bundles the tika-core, which basically sniffs magic numbers rather than parsing files, which this CVE relates to.
So as Lucee doesn’t even bundle that jar, you have nothing to worry about
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54988
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.
We are planning to update tika-core in 7.1 to the latest release.
Lucee 7 does have an ENV var to disable mime type detection, which uses Tika