PT-2020-11151 · Rapid7 · Rapid7 Metasploit

Deepsight · Published 2020-09-01 · Updated 2020-09-08 · CVE-2019-5645

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Rapid7 Metasploit (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows an attacker to register an arbitrary regular expression by sending a specially crafted HTTP GET request to a listening Rapid7 Metasploit HTTP handler. This can either prevent new HTTP handler sessions from being established or cause a resource exhaustion on the Metasploit server.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-5645

Affected Products

Rapid7 Metasploit

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/dos/http/metasploit_httphandler_dos.rb · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-5645 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5645 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/14406 · Telegram Post