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CVE-2025-34469

CVE-2025-34469MEDIUM

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

  AV  AC  AT  PR  UI  VC  VI  VA   CVSS    EPSS   %ile   KEV
   N   L   N   N   N   N   N   L    6.9   .0067   51.3     —

AFFECTED
  Product  Versions     Fixed
  Cowrie   unspecified  —

TIMELINE
  Apr 15  Reserved by VulnCheck
  Dec 31  Published (CNA: VulnCheck)
  Oct 8   EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2025-34469 (Cowrie). Public exploit reference added.

CWE-918 · CNA: VulnCheck · CVSS v4.0 · 5 references · NVD status: Analyzed

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.

Lifecycle

Complete event history — 3 events, chronological
Date	Event	Detail
April 15, 2025	Reserved	Reserved by VulnCheck
December 31, 2025	Published	Published (CNA: VulnCheck)
October 8, 2026	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED	EXPLOIT PUBLISHED — CVE-2025-34469 (Cowrie). Public exploit reference added.

Affected

Affected products and packages — 1 row
Vendor	Product / Package	Ecosystem	Version introduced	Fixed
Cowrie	Cowrie	—	—	—

Weaknesses

CWE-918

References (5)

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj [Exploit, Third Party Advisory]
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622 [Exploit, Issue Tracking]
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800 [Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch]
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0 [Release Notes]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cowrie-unrestricted-wget-curl-emulation-enables-ssrf-based-ddos-amplification [Third Party Advisory]

Authoritative record: CVE-2025-34469 at cve.org

Vendors: cowrie

Weaknesses: CWE-918

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