CVE-2025-34469
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-918
Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Publication date:
31/12/2025
Last modified:
31/12/2025
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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
6.90
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622
- 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