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    1 vulnerability by cowrie

    CVE-2025-34469 (GCVE-0-2025-34469)

    Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 21:36 – Updated: 2026-03-05 12:04 X_Known Exploited Vulnerability
    VLAI
    Title
    Cowrie < 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification
    Summary
    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.
    Severity
    6.9 (Medium)
    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
    SSVC
    Exploitation: poc Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
    CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
    CWE
    • CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
    Assigner
    References
    Impacted products
    Vendor Product Version
    Cowrie Cowrie Affected: 0 , < 2.9.0 (semver)
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    Credits
    Abraham Gebrehiwot and Filippo Lauria (Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Research Council (CNR)) Michele Castellaneta, Claudio Porta, and Sara Afzal (Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Research Council (CNR))
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