Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2020· Updated Aug 4, 2024
CVE-2020-12845
CVE-2020-12845
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.
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Affected products
2- Cherokee/Cherokeedescription
- Range: >=0.4.27, <=1.2.104
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
4- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09mitrevendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlmitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242mitrex_refsource_MISC
- github.com/cherokee/webserver/releasesmitrex_refsource_MISC
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