Cherokee 0.5.4 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Cherokee 0.5.4. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2009-4587. Moreover, an exploit is present.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cherokee 0.5.4. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Cherokee Web Server 0.5.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via an MS-DOS reserved word in a URI, as demonstrated by the AUX reserved word.

The weakness was disclosed 01/07/2010 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2009-4587 since 01/07/2010. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (53957), Exploit-DB (9874), SecurityFocus (BID 36814†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1023095†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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OpenVAS ID: 100318
OpenVAS Name: Cherokee Web Server Malformed Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

10/26/2009 🔍
10/28/2009 +2 days 🔍
01/07/2010 +71 days 🔍
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03/18/2015 +1896 days 🔍
09/23/2025 +3842 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2009-4587 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2009-4587
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-51452
X-Force: 53957
SecurityFocus: 36814 - Retired: Cherokee Web Server Malformed Packet Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
SecurityTracker: 1023095

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 03/18/2015 15:15
Updated: 09/23/2025 07:23
Changes: 03/18/2015 15:15 (59), 01/26/2019 11:23 (1), 09/23/2025 07:23 (21)
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