Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-202103-15
=========================================
Severity: High
Date    : 2021-03-25
CVE-ID  : CVE-2020-35176
Package : awstats
Type    : directory traversal
Remote  : Yes
Link    : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1356

Summary
======
The package awstats before version 7.8-3 is vulnerable to directory
traversal.

Resolution
=========
Upgrade to 7.8-3.

# pacman -Syu "awstats>=7.8-3"

The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.

Workaround
=========
None.

Description
==========
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.
This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501 and
CVE-2020-29600.

Impact
=====
A malicious user could access files on the filesystem.

References
=========
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69301
https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/195
https://github.com/eldy/awstats/pull/196
https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/commit/0d4d4c05f8e73be8f71dd361dc55cbd52858b823
https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-35176

ArchLinux: 202103-15: awstats: directory traversal

March 26, 2021

Summary

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. This issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501 and CVE-2020-29600.

Resolution

Upgrade to 7.8-3. # pacman -Syu "awstats>=7.8-3"
The problem has been fixed upstream but no release is available yet.

References

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/69301 https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/195 https://github.com/eldy/awstats/pull/196 https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/commit/0d4d4c05f8e73be8f71dd361dc55cbd52858b823 https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2020-35176

Severity
Package : awstats
Type : directory traversal
Remote : Yes
Link : https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-1356

Workaround

None.

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