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CVE-2020-12845

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-12845 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Cherokee web server versions 0.4.27 through 1.2.104. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can crash the server by sending a crafted HTTP request with a malformed Authorization header to protected resources, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating a severe impact on availability with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. There is currently no public exploit code available, and it is not known to be actively exploited in the wild, nor has it garnered significant community discussion or media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 0.4.27, <= 1.2.104CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cherokee-project:cherokee:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
86.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0320 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

cherokee-project.com / downloads.html
Vendor Advisory
github.com / cherokee/webserver/issues/1242
ExploitIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
github.com / cherokee/webserver/releases
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202012-09
Third Party Advisory