CVE-2025-34469
Medium
Elevated severity or exploit probability.
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS — probability of exploitation (30 days)
0.7%
50.6th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness / dates
CWE-918
Published 2025-12-31 · modified 2026-09-23
Description
Cowrie versions prior to 2.9.0 contain a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the emulated shell implementation of wget and curl. In the default emulated shell configuration, these command emulations perform real outbound HTTP requests to attacker-supplied destinations. Because no outbound request rate limiting was enforced, unauthenticated remote attackers could repeatedly invoke these commands to generate unbounded HTTP traffic toward arbitrary third-party targets, allowing the Cowrie honeypot to be abused as a denial-of-service amplification node and masking the attacker’s true source address behind the honeypot’s IP.
Affected
References
- exploit https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj
- exploit https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622
- exploit https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cowrie-unrestricted-wget-curl-emulation-enables-ssrf-based-ddos-amplification
- exploit https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj