Debian DLA-1238-1 : awstats security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 105703

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 7.0~dfsg-7+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Upgrade the affected awstats package.

See Also

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00012.html

https://packages.debian.org/source/wheezy/awstats

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 105703

File Name: debian_DLA-1238.nasl

Version: 3.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/10/2018

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:awstats

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/10/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000501