9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-29600

Published: 07/12/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

In AWStats up to and including 7.7, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts an absolute pathname, even though it was intended to only read a file in the /etc/awstats/awstats.conf format. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501.

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #891469 awstats: Path traversal in config parameter if site config is missing (CVE-2020-29600) Package: awstats; Maintainer for awstats is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Source for awstats is src:awstats (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Tomaž Šolc <tomazsolc@tablixorg> Date: ...
Debian Bug report logs - #977190 awstats: CVE-2020-35176 Package: src:awstats; Maintainer for src:awstats is Debian QA Group <packages@qadebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, 12 Dec 2020 09:21:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: security, upstream Found in version awstats/78-1 ...