CVE-2025-34469 - Cowrie < 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification

CVE-2025-34469 - Cowrie < 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification

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CVE ID : CVE-2025-34469
Published : Dec. 31, 2025, 10:15 p.m. | 2 hours, 7 minutes ago
Description : 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: 6.9 | MEDIUM
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