high7.5
CVE-2020-12845
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences.
Impact
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Cherokee-Project | Cherokee | from 0.4.27 through 1.2.104 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
- http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
- https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09