CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-12845
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-07-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences. A remote unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending an HTTP request to protected resources using a malformed Authorization header that is mishandled during a cherokee_buffer_add call within cherokee_validator_parse_basic or cherokee_validator_parse_digest.
Affected configurations
• cherokee-project cherokee (>= 0.4.27 <= 1.2.104)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory
- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory