CVE-2020-12845
published 2020-07-27CVE-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…
PriorityP343high7.5CVSS 3.1
AVNACLPRNUINSUCNINAH
EPSS
3.20%
86.5th percentile
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.
Affected
1 ranges
| Vendor | Product | Version range | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| cherokee-project | cherokee | 0.4.27 – 1.2.104 | — |
CVSS provenance
nvdv3.17.5HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvdv2.05.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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Bugzilla
CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header
bugzilla·2020-07-28·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2020-12845 [HIGH] CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header
CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header
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.
Reference:
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
Discussion:
Created cherokee tracking bugs for this issue:
Affects: epel-6 [bug 1861461]
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This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product.
Bugzilla
CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header [epel-6]
bugzilla·2020-07-28·CVSS 7.5
CVE-2020-12845 [HIGH] CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header [epel-6]
CVE-2020-12845 cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header [epel-6]
This is an automatically created tracking bug! It was created to ensure
that one or more security vulnerabilities are fixed in affected versions
of epel-6.
For comments that are specific to the vulnerability please use bugs filed
against the "Security Response" product referenced in the "Blocks" field.
For more information see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Security/TrackingBugs
When submitting as an update, use the fedpkg template provided in the next
comment(s). This will include the bug IDs of this tracking bug as well as
the relevant top-level CVE bugs.
Please also mention the CVE IDs being fixed in the RPM changelog and the
fedpkg commit message.
Discussi
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlhttps://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releaseshttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.htmlhttps://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releaseshttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
2020-07-27
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