# CVE-2025-34469: Cowrie \< 2.9.0 Unrestricted wget/curl Emulation Enables SSRF-Based DDoS Amplification

- Also known as: GHSA-83JG-M2PM-4JXJ, PYSEC-2026-1280
- Severity: CVSS 6.9 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.9.0
- Published: 2025-12-31 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- Cowrie: fixed in 2.9.0
- cowrie (PyPI): fixed in 2.9.0

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Cowrie, cowrie, upgrade to a fixed version (2.9.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/releases/tag/v2.9.0
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/pull/2800
- https://github.com/cowrie/cowrie/issues/2622
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/cowrie-unrestricted-wget-curl-emulation-enables-ssrf-based-ddos-amplification

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