Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-12845 - NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Cherokee-Project Cherokee

CVSS 7.5 - HIGH

Attack vector

NETWORK

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

NONE

Confidentiality impact

NONE

Integrity impact

NONE

Availability impact

HIGH

network

low complexity

cherokee-project

CWE-476

NVD

Published: 2020-07-27

Updated: 2024-11-21

Summary

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Cherokee-Project Cherokee Project Cherokee 0.4.27 Cherokee Project Cherokee 0.99.31 Cherokee Project Cherokee 0.99.32 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.12 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.13 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.14 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.15 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.16 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.17 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.18 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.0.21 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.0 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.2 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.98 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.99 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.101 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.102 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.103 Cherokee Project Cherokee 1.2.104	19

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

CWE-476 - NULL Pointer Dereference

Summary

Vulnerable Configurations

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

References