CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-12845

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.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 Exploit Issue Tracking
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

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

Published : 2020-07-27 11:15

Updated : 2022-11-29 02:37

NVD link : CVE-2020-12845

Mitre link : CVE-2020-12845

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-476