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Ubuntu 5.04 / 5.10 / 6.06 LTS : awstats vulnerability (USN-290-1)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27862

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing a security-related patch.

Description

Hendrik Weimer discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in awstats. By supplying the 'configdir' CGI parameter and setting it to an attacker-controlled directory (such as an FTP account, /tmp, or similar), an attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands with the privileges of the web server (user 'www-data').

This update disables the 'configdir' parameter by default. If all local user accounts can be trusted, it can be reenabled by running awstats with the AWSTATS_ENABLE_CONFIG_DIR environment variable set to a nonempty value.

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

Solution

Update the affected awstats package.

See Also

https://usn.ubuntu.com/290-1/

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27862

File Name: ubuntu_USN-290-1.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2007

Updated: 1/19/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.04, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:awstats

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-2644

USN: 290-1