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.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

5.0^/10

CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html	Vendor Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242	Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2020-07-27 23:15

Updated : 2024-02-28 17:47

NVD link : CVE-2020-12845

Mitre link : CVE-2020-12845

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-12845

JSON object : View

Products Affected

cherokee-project

cherokee

CWE

CWE-476

NULL Pointer Dereference

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