CVE-2025-34469Cowrie < 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification
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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.
- CVSS
- 6.9 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-918
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- VulnCheck
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 8, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Cowrie Cowrie cowrie:cowrie (from the name) | before 2.9.0 | CNA record |
cowrie cowrie cowrie:cowrie | before 2.9.0 | NVD |
References
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxjvendor-advisory
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0release-notes, patch
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800issue-tracking
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622issue-tracking
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cowrie-unrestricted-wget-curl-emulation-enables-ssrf-based-ddos-amplificationthird-party-advisory
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