{"id":"CVE-2020-12845","details":"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.","modified":"2026-04-16T00:09:10.980521361Z","published":"2020-07-27T23:15:12.437Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202012-09"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/cherokee/webserver","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"1824487b7af0724ae42ef564b82b106c65fc0b31"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0.4.27"},{"last_affected":"1.2.104"}],"source":"CPE_FIELD","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"versions":["v1.0.12","v1.0.13","v1.0.14","v1.0.15","v1.0.16","v1.0.17","v1.0.18","v1.0.21","v1.2.0","v1.2.101","v1.2.103","v1.2.103.d021376","v1.2.104","v1.2.2","v1.2.98","v1.2.99"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-12845.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}