CVE-2020-29600
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.038 · 90 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (4)
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references (18)
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- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469cnnvd
- https://github.com/eldy/awstats/commit/d4d815d0caae3dbae83ac70a1ae4581bd57cf376Patchcnnvd
- https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-29600cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162575/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4953-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/AWStats-directory-traversal-via-Config-Absolute-Pathname-34198cnnvd
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