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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2019-20799 json

In Cherokee through 1.2.104, multiple memory corruption errors may be used by a remote attacker to destabilize the work of a server.

published 2020-05-17 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-11336

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.4%
EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

In Cherokee through 1.2.104, multiple memory corruption errors may be used by a remote attacker to destabilize the work of a server.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-20799 updated cvss 7.5

cherokee: multiple memory corruption errors may be used by a remote attacker to destabilize the work of a server

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • logicaltrust.net https://logicaltrust.net/blog/2019/11/cherokee.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1226 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1225 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1222 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • github.com https://github.com/cherokee/webserver/issues/1221 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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Sources

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