CVE-2020-12845

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-12845
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-07-27 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-11-29 02:37:00 UTC
DescriptionCherokee 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-476

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cherokee-project Cherokee All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Cherokee Web Server MISC cherokee-project.com Vendor Advisory
NULL pointer derefence during HTTP authentication · Issue #1242 · cherokee/webserver · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Releases · cherokee/webserver · GitHub MISC github.com Third Party Advisory
Cherokee: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202012-09) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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