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CVE-2017-1000501

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-01-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

Affected products

• Awstats: through 7.6.0
• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0

References

• http://www.awstats.org/
• https://github.com/eldy/awstats/commit/06c0ab29c1e5059d9e0279c6b64d573d619e1651
• https://github.com/eldy/awstats/commit/cf219843a74c951bf5986f3a7fffa3dcf99c3899
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00012.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-37
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4092
• http://www.awstats.org/
• https://github.com/eldy/awstats/commit/06c0ab29c1e5059d9e0279c6b64d573d619e1651
• https://github.com/eldy/awstats/commit/cf219843a74c951bf5986f3a7fffa3dcf99c3899
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00012.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-37
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4092

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