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CVE-2020-12845 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.5 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html CVEVendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 CVEExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases CVEThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 CVEThird Party Advisory
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html [email protected]Vendor Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-476NULL Pointer Dereference[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
cherokee-project cherokee
>= 0.4.27, <= 1.2.104

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2020-12845
NVD Published Date:
Jul 27, 2020
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2020-12845 Details - Not Deferred