CVE-2019-5645

high · 7.5

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.

7.5

CVSS

41.7%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

99th

EPSS percentile

2020-09-01

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
rapid7	metasploit	<= 5.0.27

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References

https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2019-5645