CVE-2020-29600

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.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html

https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3