CVE-2025-71259

Footprints Itsm vulnerability

CVSS

4.3

EPSS

12.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

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.

Affected vendor

Bmc

Affected product

Footprints Itsm

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-918 — Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Published

2026-03-19

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring low privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to low impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 12.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2025-71259.
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