VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2020-12845
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.20%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.20%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 3.20% probability · 87th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-476
- Affected
- cherokee-project/cherokee
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.