Current 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.
Analysis 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.
Severity
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Weakness Enumeration
| CWE-ID | CWE Name | Source |
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| CWE-476 | NULL Pointer Dereference | NIST |
Change History
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Initial Analysis 7/29/2020 12:27:51 PM
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| Added | CPE Configuration |
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*cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 0.4.27 up to (including) 1.2.104
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| Added | CVSS V2 |
NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) |
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| Added | CVSS V3.1 |
NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
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| Added | CWE |
NIST CWE-476 |
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http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html No Types Assigned |
http://cherokee-project.com/downloads.html Vendor Advisory |
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https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 No Types Assigned |
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1242 Exploit, Third Party Advisory |
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https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases No Types Assigned |
https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/releases Third Party Advisory |