ghsa-wp3v-g466-8g44
Vulnerability from github
Published
2021-05-05 19:25
Modified
2021-12-14 18:11
Summary
Regular expression denial of service in Rapid7 Metasploit
Details

By sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler, an attacker can register an arbitrary regular expression. When evaluated, this malicious handler can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established, or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.

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{
  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2019-5645"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2020-09-01T15:15:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "By sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler, an attacker can register an arbitrary regular expression. When evaluated, this malicious handler can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established, or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.",
  "id": "GHSA-wp3v-g466-8g44",
  "modified": "2021-12-14T18:11:16Z",
  "published": "2021-05-05T19:25:15Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5645"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Regular expression denial of service in Rapid7 Metasploit"
}


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