connection.c in Cherokee web server before 0.4.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an HTTP POST request without a Content-Length header field.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Cherokee Web Server allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URL.

Cherokee web server before 0.2.7 does not properly drop root privileges after binding to port 80, which could allow remote attackers to gain privileges via other vulnerabilities.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cherokee before 0.4.8 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the URL, which is not properly quoted in the resulting error page.

Format string vulnerability in the PRINTERROR function in common.c for Cherokee Web Server 0.4.16 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the -C command line argument. NOTE: it is not clear whether this issue could be exploited remotely, or if Cherokee is running at escalated privileges. Therefore it might not be a vulnerability.

Format string vulnerability in the cherokeeloggerncsawritestring function in Cherokee 0.4.17 and earlier, when authenticating via authpam, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the URL.

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Cherokee HTTPD 0.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a malformed request that generates an HTTP 400 error, which is not properly handled when the error message is generated.

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.

Directory traversal vulnerability in Cherokee Web Server 0.5.4 and earlier for Windows allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a /\.. (slash backslash dot dot) in the URL.

Two flaws were reported in Cherokee.

The first (CVE-2011-2191) is that the Cherokee server admin configuration web interface is vulnerable to CSRF. If an admin is logged into the Cherokee admin interface and visits a site which runs a malicious script, Cherokee can be reconfigured to execute arbitrary commands [1]. It is also vulnerable to use the CSRF to produce a persistant XSS [2].

The second (CVE-2011-2090) is that Cherokee seeds srand with a combination of the time and the PID of the admin process, after which rand() is called to generate a random password -- this is unsafe and allows for fairly easy local password guessing by a local user [3].

[1] http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Jun/0 [2] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/6 [3] http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/detail?id=1212