Security Advisory

CVE-2019-5645

7.5
HIGH

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date September 1, 2020
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory