CVE-2020-12845
CVSS V2 Medium 5
CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
- CVE ID
- CVE-2020-12845
- Assigner
- cve@mitre.org
- Vulnerability Status
- Analyzed
- Published Version
- 2020-07-27T23:15:12
- Last Modified Date
- 2022-11-29T02:37:13
Weakness Enumerations
CPE Configuration (Product)
| CPE | Vulnerable | Operator | Version Start | Version End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1 | OR | 0.4.27 | 1.2.104 |
CVSS Version 2
- Version
- 2.0
- Vector String
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Access Vector
- NETWORK
- Access Compatibility
- LOW
- Authentication
- NONE
- Confidentiality Impact
- NONE
- Integrity Impact
- NONE
- Availability Impact
- PARTIAL
- Base Score
- 5
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- Exploitability Score
- 10
- Impact Score
- 2.9
CVSS Version 3
- Version
- 3.1
- Vector String
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Attack Compatibility
- LOW
- Privileges Required
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality Impact
- NONE
- Availability Impact
- HIGH
- Base Score
- 7.5
- Base Severity
- HIGH
- Exploitability Score
- 3.9
- Impact Score
- 3.6
References
| Reference URL | Reference Tags |
|---|---|
| http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html | Vendor Advisory |
| https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases | Third Party Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09 |
Sources
| Source Name | Source URL |
|---|---|
| NIST | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12845 |
| MITRE | https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-12845 |
History
| Created | Old Value | New Value | Data Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022-05-10 07:29:25 | Added to TrackCVE | |||
| 2022-12-04 20:16:39 | 2020-07-27T23:15Z | 2020-07-27T23:15:12 | CVE Published Date | updated |
| 2022-12-04 20:16:39 | 2022-11-29T02:37:13 | CVE Modified Date | updated | |
| 2022-12-04 20:16:39 | Analyzed | Vulnerability Status | updated |