Description

Keyoti SearchUnit prior to 9.0.0. is vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in /Keyoti_SearchEngine_Web_Common/SearchService.svc/GetResults and /Keyoti_SearchEngine_Web_Common/SearchService.svc/GetLocationAndContentCategories. An attacker can specify their own SMB server as the indexDirectory value when making POST requests to the affected components. In doing so an attacker can get the SearchUnit server to read and write configuration and log files from/to the attackers server.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-44043

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 6.44% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-44043
https://keyoti.com/products/search/dotNetWeb/HtmlHelp9/?topic=UserGuide/Release%20Notes.htm
https://www.sprocketsecurity.com/blog/cve-alert-cve-2025-44043-cve-2025-44044-the-search-bar-hacks-arent-dead-yet

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