CVE-2020-29600

2020-12-0700:00:00

ubuntu.com

awstats

absolute pathname

configuration vulnerability

CVSS2

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS3

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.083

Percentile

94.5%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
mdeslaur	fix is incomplete, see CVE-2020-35176

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchawstats< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchawstats< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu20.10noarchawstats< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchawstats< 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	awstats	< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	awstats	< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.10	noarch	awstats	< 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	awstats	< 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1	UNKNOWN