CVE-2020-12845

Public Exploit

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.

Category

7.5
CVSS
Severity: High
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 6.03% Top 10%
Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory cherokee-project.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases third party advisory
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html vendor advisory
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 issue tracking exploit third party advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 third party advisory vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2020-12845?
CVE-2020-12845 has been scored as a high severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2020-12845?
To fix CVE-2020-12845, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2020-12845 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2020-12845 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~6% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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