CVE-2025-34469 (GCVE-0-2025-34469)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 21:36 – Updated: 2026-11-08 14:00 X_Known Exploited Vulnerability
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
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
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: yes
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-02 14:18 UTC
CWE
- CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
VulnCheck
CNA
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj | vendor-advisory |
| https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0 | release-notespatch |
| https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800 | issue-trackingpatch |
| https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622 | issue-tracking |
| https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cowrie-unres… | third-party-advisory |
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