CVE-2020-12845

7.5 highEPSS 3.2%

High (7.5) in cherokee-project cherokee. EPSS 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.5 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 88% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-476
Published: 2020-07-27
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

cherokee-project:cherokee

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

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