Directory Traversal Affecting awstats package, versions <7.8-2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-AWSTATS-1541986
  • published12 Dec 2020
  • disclosed12 Dec 2020

Introduced: 12 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-35176  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 awstats to version 7.8-2 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.

In AWStats through 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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