CVE-2019-5645 (GCVE-0-2019-5645)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-09-01 14:35
Modified
2026-10-23 00:10
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rapid7 | Metasploit Framework |
Version: 0 < |
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