CVE-2020-29600

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Summary

CVECVE-2020-29600
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-12-07 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:21:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Awstats Awstats All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
#891469 - awstats: Path traversal in config parameter if site config is missing (CVE-2020-29600) - Debian Bug report logs MISC bugs.debian.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: awstats-7.8-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: awstats-7.8-2.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2017-1000501 question · Issue #90 · eldy/awstats · GitHub MISC github.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 2506-1] awstats security update MLIST lists.debian.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198370 Ubuntu Security Notification for AWStats vulnerabilities (USN-4953-1)
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