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  1. Medium, CVSS 6.9PyPIAmendedPublished

    Cowrie has a SSRF vulnerability in wget/curl emulation enabling DDoS amplification

    CVE-2025-34469 · GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj

    Affected
    • PyPI cowrie < 2.9.0
    Fixed in
    2.9.0· Vendor fix available
    Issue
    A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Cowrie's emulated shell mode allows unauthenticated attackers to abuse the honeypot as an amplification vector for HTTP-based denial-of-service attacks against arbitrary third-party hosts. Details When Cowrie operates in emulated shell mode (the default configuration), it basically emulates common Linux commands. The wget and curl command emulations actually perform real outbound HTTP requests to the destinations specified by the attacker, as this functionality is intended to allow Cowrie to save downloaded files for later inspection. An attacker who connects to the honeypot via SSH or Telnet can repeatedly invoke these commands targeting a victim host. Since there was no rate limiting mechanism in place, the attacker could generate unlimited outbound HTTP traffic toward the victim. The requests originate from the honeypot's IP address, effectively masking the attacker's identity and turning the honeypot into an unwitting…

    Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.9.0 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.

    Sources:osv.dev (1)github.com (2)Source checked Evidence →