CVE-2020-12845
Estado: ModificadaAlta (7.5)—
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.
CVSS
- Versión: 3.1
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Puntuación base: 7.5
Probabilidad de explotación (EPSS)
- Probabilidad de explotación en los próximos 30 días: 3.20%
- Percentil entre todas las CVEs puntuadas: 88
- Fecha de la puntuación: 6/10/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, de FIRST) estima la probabilidad de que una vulnerabilidad sea explotada en 30 días. Complementa a CVSS (impacto) y a CISA KEV (explotación confirmada).
Tecnologías afectadas (1)
CWE
- CWE-476
Referencias
- 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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