Directory Traversal Affecting awstats package, versions <7.6+dfsg-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
12.33% (96th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-AWSTATS-1541887
  • published3 Jan 2018
  • disclosed3 Jan 2018

Introduced: 3 Jan 2018

CVE-2017-1000501  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 awstats to version 7.6+dfsg-2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream awstats package and not the awstats package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.