CVE-2025-34469

HIGH EXPLOITED

Cowrie < 2.9.0 - Unauthenticated Server-Side Request Forgery via wget and curl Emulation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2025-34469 has been observed exploited in the wild (reported by VulnCheck KEV).

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj
Release Notes release-notes patch
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch patch
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800
Exploit, Issue Tracking issue-tracking
https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0024
EPSS Percentile 46.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable yes
Technical Impact partial

Details

VulnCheck KEV 2025-12-19
CWE
CWE-918
Status published
Products (2)
cowrie/cowrie < 2.9.0
pypi/cowrie 0 - 2.9.0PyPI
Published Dec 31, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026