Directory Traversal Affecting awstats package, versions <7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Ubuntu security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.23% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-UBUNTU2004-AWSTATS-1055414
  • published 5 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 7 Dec 2020

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:20.04 awstats to version 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1 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 Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:20.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High