CVE-2020-12845

high

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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242

http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-07-27

Updated: 2022-11-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High