CVE-2020-29600 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469 https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8