MGASA-2021-0024 - Updated awstats package fixes a security vulnerability Publication date: 14 Jan 2021 URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0024.html Type: security Affected Mageia releases: 7 CVE: CVE-2020-29600 It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution. The previous fix did not fully address the issue when the default /etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not present (CVE-2020-29600). References: - https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27920 - https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2506 - https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/ - https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29600 SRPMS: - 7/core/awstats-7.7-1.1.mga7
Mageia 2021-0024: awstats security update
It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks
Summary
It was discovered that Awstats was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A
remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code
execution. The previous fix did not fully address the issue when the default
/etc/awstats/awstats.conf is not present (CVE-2020-29600).
References
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27920
- https://www.debian.org/lts/security/2020/dla-2506
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-29600
Resolution
MGASA-2021-0024 - Updated awstats package fixes a security vulnerability
SRPMS
- 7/core/awstats-7.7-1.1.mga7
Severity
Publication date: 14 Jan 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0024.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2020-29600
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