High severity · published Jul 27, 2020
CVE-2020-12845
Cherokee 0.4.27 to 1.2.104 is affected by a denial of service due to a NULL pointer dereferences
7.5
CVSS
3.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.2% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
CH
Cherokee · Cherokee-project
0.4.27 through 1.2.104 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12845
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12845
Vendor Advisory
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
Exploit
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
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