CVE-2020-29600

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2020-12-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

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.

Affected products

Awstats: through 7.7
Debian Linux: 9.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 32

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469
https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469
https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/

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