CVE-2020-35176

Publication date 12 December 2020

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

In AWStats through 7.8, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts a partial absolute pathname (omitting the initial /etc), 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 and CVE-2020-29600.

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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

incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501 and CVE-2020-29600

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N