Cowrie < 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification
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.
CVE-2025-34469
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2025-34469
Cowrie
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
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- Prerequisites
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Cowrie",
"product": "Cowrie",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"lessThan": "2.9.0",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"packageURL": "pkg:pypi/cowrie",
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2025-34469
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Publisher severity
medium
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #12635 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date