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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.9 · cowrieNVD modified 2026-10-08 16:16
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:cowrie:cowrie:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 6
- 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
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj Exploit, Third Party Advisory