CVE-2019-5645 - Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service · CoreCVE

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HIGH

Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP Handler Denial of Service

Published Sep 1, 2020

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 41.69%

Description

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.

Affected products

Vendor Rapid7 Product Metasploit Framework Default
n/a
- Version
  5.0.27
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <=5.0.27

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

Metasploit Framework

n/a

Version	Status	Constraints
5.0.27	affected	<=5.0.27

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References (1)

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

Link	Providers	Tags
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433		x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner rapid7

Published Sep 1, 2020

Updated Sep 17, 2024

Reserved Jan 7, 2019

Link CVE-2019-5645

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2019-5645

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2019-5645