CVE-2020-12845

HIGH

7.5

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score7.5

SeverityHIGH

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published7/27/2020

Last Modified11/21/2024

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

cherokee-project:cherokee

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-476

References

http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242(cve@mitre.org)

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09(cve@mitre.org)

http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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