High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026
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
4cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=0.4.27,<=1.2.104
- (no CPE)range: 0.4.27-1.2.104
- Cherokee/Cherokeedescription
Patches
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References
4- github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242nvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
- cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
- github.com/cherokee/webserver/releasesnvdThird Party Advisory
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09nvdThird Party Advisory
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