CVE-2020-29600
awstats - security update
9.8
CRITICAL
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.7%
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.
How to fix CVE-2020-29600
To remediate CVE-2020-29600, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Alpine/awstats—upgrade to 7.8-r0 or later
- —upgrade to 7.8-1 or later
- —upgrade to 7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u2 or later
Is CVE-2020-29600 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.7%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 7.8-r0
- from 0, < 7.8-1
- from 0, < 7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |