CVE-2020-12845
HIGHCherokee 0.4.27-1.2.104 - Unauthenticated Denial of Service via Malformed Authorization Header
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0320
EPSS Percentile
86.5%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-476
Status
published
Products (1)
cherokee-project/cherokee
0.4.27 - 1.2.104
Published
Jul 27, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026