CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-20800
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-05-18
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
In Cherokee through 1.2.104, remote attackers can trigger an out-of-bounds write in cherokee_handler_cgi_add_env_pair in handler_cgi.c by sending many request headers, as demonstrated by a GET request with many "Host: 127.0.0.1" headers.
Affected configurations
• cherokee-project cherokee (<= 1.2.104)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1224 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/11/cherokee.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1224 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/11/cherokee.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory