High
Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service
By sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler, an attacker can register an arbitrary regular expression. When evaluated, this malicious handler can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established, or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.
Announced Source revision 1
Original source ↗CVE-2019-5645
Primary source · Revision 1
Imported from structured advisory data. Source references identify upstream records or fields; verify affected versions and your deployed configuration.
Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2019-5645
Metasploit Framework
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
- Fixed versions
- Not stated in this record
- Prerequisites
- Not stated in this record
Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "Rapid7",
"product": "Metasploit Framework",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "0",
"versionType": "custom",
"lessThanOrEqual": "5.0.27"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2019-5645
Source reference:
/cveMetadata/cveId
Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #52525 · Revision 1
- Added to Heist Feed
- Publisher date