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Cherokee Web Server 0.4.27 <= 1.2.104 DoS Vulnerability
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Cherokee Web Server is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.
Insight
Insight
Cherokee is affected by a denial of service due to 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 Software
Affected Software
Cherokee Web Server through versions 0.4.27 to 1.2.10.
Detection Method
Detection Method
Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.
Solution
Solution
No known solution is available as of 29th July, 2020. Information regarding this issue will be updated once solution details are available.