# CVE-2025-71259: FootPrints - SSRF

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Page: https://tracker.crowdsec.net/cves/CVE-2025-71259

## Key facts

- **Exploitation phase:** Limited Exploitation. The vulnerability is known but shows very limited attacker interest or exploitation activity.
- **CVSS score:** 5.3
- **Public exploit available:** Yes
- **Affected products:** BMC Software, Inc. FootPrints
- **Weaknesses:** CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF))
- **Tags:** enterprise_software

## Description

BMC FootPrints ITSM versions 20.20.02 through 20.24.01.001 contain a blind server-side request forgery vulnerability in the externalfeed/RSS API component that allows authenticated attackers to trigger arbitrary outbound requests from the server. Attackers can exploit insufficient validation of externally supplied resource references to interact with internal services or cause resource exhaustion impacting availability. The following hotfixes remediate the vulnerability: 20.20.02, 20.20.03.002, 20.21.01.001, 20.21.02.002, 20.22.01, 20.22.01.001, 20.23.01, 20.23.01.002, and 20.24.01.

## CrowdSec analysis

[CVE-2025-71259](https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/CVE-2025-71259) is a blind server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in BMC FootPrints ITSM versions 20.20.02 through 20.24.01.001, specifically within the externalfeed/RSS API component. This flaw allows authenticated attackers to make arbitrary outbound requests from the server, potentially interacting with internal services or causing resource exhaustion that impacts system availability. Attackers could leverage this vulnerability to probe internal networks or disrupt service operations.

CrowdSec has been tracking this vulnerability and its exploits since 1st of April 2026.

CrowdSec has not observed any significant exploitation activity targeting CVE-2025-71259 across its network. As a result, no community-driven trend analysis is available for this vulnerability at this time.

Attackers exploit the `/footprints/servicedesk/externalfeed/RSS` endpoint by supplying a crafted `feedUrl` parameter, forcing the server to make outbound HTTP requests to attacker-controlled or internal URLs, enabling Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF).

## Timeline

- 2026-03-19: CVE Published. CVE-2025-71259 is published to NVD.
- 2026-04-01: Rule Released. CrowdSec releases a rule to detect CVE-2025-71259 exploitation attempts against the CrowdSec Network.
- 2026-07-06: CrowdSec First Seen. CrowdSec observes in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2025-71259 for the first time.

## References

- https://docs.bmc.com/xwiki/bin/view/More-Products/Footprints/FootPrints/fp2024/Release-notes/2024-Release-01-Patch-2/
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/bmc-footprints-itsm-blind-ssrf-in-externalfeed-rss
- https://labs.watchtowr.com/thanks-itsms-threat-actors-have-never-been-so-organized-bmc-footprints-pre-auth-remote-code-execution-chains/
- https://github.com/projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-71259.yaml

## Live exploitation data

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