CVE-2020-12845

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-476

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlVendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releasesThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09Third Party Advisory
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlVendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releasesThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Jul 27, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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