CVE-2019-5645CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2019-5645

High · published September 1, 2020

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
42%
Percentile
98.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

By sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler, an attacker can register an arbitrary regular expression. When evaluated, this malicious handler can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established, or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.41688 · 98.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2020-09-01T19:15Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
rapid7/metasploit≤ 5.0.27—
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 01 SEP 14:35Z
    Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service
    cvelistv5