Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5645

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2020-09-01 14:35:12
Last updated 2024-09-17 03:29:11
Assigner rapid7
CVSS score 7.5
State PUBLISHED

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.