CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-29600
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-12-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
Description
In AWStats through 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.
Affected configurations
• awstats awstats (<= 7.7)
• debian debian linux 9.0
• fedoraproject fedora 32
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/ lists.fedoraproject.org