CVE-2020-12845
CVSS v3
7.5
HIGH
EPSS Score
3.2 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
—
SSVC status
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Vendor advisories
- CVE-2020-12845 Red Hat Product Security
cherokee: NULL pointer dereference by sending an HTTP request using a malformed Authorization header
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2020-07-27
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