Debian DSA-4092-1 : awstats - security update

critical Nessus Plugin ID 106212

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

The cPanel Security Team discovered that awstats, a log file analyzer, was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution.

Solution

Upgrade the awstats packages.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 7.2+dfsg-1+deb8u1.

For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=885835

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/awstats

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

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

https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4092

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 106212

File Name: debian_DSA-4092.nasl

Version: 3.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/22/2018

Updated: 11/13/2018

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:awstats

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

Patch Publication Date: 1/19/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-1000501

DSA: 4092