CVE-2020-12845
mediumpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.032 · 88 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5
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affected products (2)
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references (15)
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- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlcnnvd
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242cnnvd
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/pull/1243Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releasescnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12845cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/160700/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202012-09.htmlcnnvd
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09cnnvd
- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlenisa_euvd
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