CVE-2006-2644

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-05-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

AWStats 6.5, and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by using the configdir parameter to awstats.pl to upload a configuration file whose name contains shell metacharacters, then access that file using the LogFile directive.

Affected products

Awstats: 6.4_1-sarge1, 6.5, 6.5_1

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365910
http://secunia.com/advisories/20164
http://secunia.com/advisories/20283
http://secunia.com/advisories/20502
http://secunia.com/advisories/20710
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1075
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_33_awstats.html
http://www.osreviews.net/reviews/comm/awstats
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18327
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1998
https://usn.ubuntu.com/290-1/
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=365910

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