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CVE-2025-34469 (GCVE-0-2025-34469)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-31 21:36 – Updated: 2026-01-02 14:35 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 ?
CWE
- CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Assigner
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Credits
Abraham Gebrehiwot and Filippo Lauria (Institute of Informatics and Telematics, Italian National Research Council (CNR))
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