CVE-2025-34469: cowrie before 2.9.0 (exclusive); +1 more affected products

Affected technology

cowrie · before 2.9.0 (exclusive)
cowrie

Cowrie · 0 to before 2.9.0
Cowrie

Description’s affected range: versions prior to 2.9.0

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 4.0): Network (remote) · No privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

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. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 4.0 assessment (base score 6.9/10) rates confidentiality and integrity impact as none; availability impact as low.