CVE-2025-34469
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 4.0
- 6.9
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 - CVSS 3.1
- 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-918
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- cowrie:cowrie
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj | PyPI | cowrie | <2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
| PYSEC-2026-1280 | PyPI | cowrie | <2.9.0 | 2.9.0 |
References
- 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