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SCA: security update for cowrie (GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 436469

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2025-34469)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-83jg-m2pm-4jxj

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 436469

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 12/20/2025

Updated: 7/6/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-34469

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 5.5

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/20/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/20/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-34469

cwe: CWE-918