{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ranges": [
        {
          "database_specific": {
            "versions": [
              {
                "introduced": "0.4.27"
              },
              {
                "last_affected": "1.2.104"
              }
            ]
          },
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "1824487b7af0724ae42ef564b82b106c65fc0b31"
            }
          ],
          "repo": "https://github.com/cherokee/webserver",
          "type": "GIT"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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.",
  "id": "CVE-2020-12845",
  "modified": "2026-04-01T23:08:27.906514107Z",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}