CVE-2019-5645

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 7.5 High

Status

Modified - cve@rapid7.com

Published

2020-09-01

Last modified

2026-10-23

Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected products

• Metasploit (Rapid7)
• Metasploit Framework (Rapid7)

References

• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/commit/5621d200ccf62e4a8f0dad80c1c74f4e0e52d86b
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/11966
• https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/pull/12433