CVE-2020-29600

Publication date 7 December 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
awstats	22.04 LTS jammy	Not affected
	21.10 impish	Not affected
	21.04 hirsute	Not affected
	20.10 groovy	Fixed 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1 Ubuntu Pro
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

fix is incomplete, see CVE-2020-35176

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
awstats	Upstream: d4d815d

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H