CVE-2020-12845: Cherokee-Project Cherokee

High severity, CVSS 7.5. 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.

Affected products

• Cherokee-Project Cherokee: from 0.4.27, up to and including 1.2.104

Published 2020-07-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.