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CVE-2020-12845

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-07-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-476

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.

Affected products

• Cherokee-Project Cherokee: from 0.4.27 through 1.2.104

References

• http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
• https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
• https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09
• http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html
• https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
• https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09

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