CVE-2019-5645

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Oct 23, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
Rapid7Metasploit Framework<= 5.0.27

References

Timeline

Published
Sep 1, 2020
Last modified
Oct 23, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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