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    CVE-2020-12845

    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.

    Published:Jul 27, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Jul 27, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.06028
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Cherokee-project
    Product
    Cherokee

    Exploits

    https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High