CVE-2019-5645 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5