Vulnerability · Published Jul 27, 2020 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2020-12845

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 3.2% (higher than 88% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)3.2%top 11.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

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

References

https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases x_refsource_MISC
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 x_refsource_MISC
GLSA-202012-09 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO