5.3
CVSSv3

CVE-2020-35176

Published: 12/12/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

In AWStats up to and including 7.8, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts a partial absolute pathname (omitting the initial /etc), 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 and CVE-2020-29600.

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Vendor Advisories

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 ...
In AWStats through 78, cgi-bin/awstatspl?config= accepts a partial absolute pathname (omitting the initial /etc), even though it was intended to only read a file in the /etc/awstats/awstatsconf format NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501 and CVE-2020-29600 ...