CVE-2020-29600

Publication date 7 December 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Low

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
awstats 22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish
Not affected
21.04 hirsute
Not affected
20.10 groovy
Fixed in 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed in 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Notes

mdeslaur

fix is incomplete, see CVE-2020-35176

Patch details

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Package Patch details
awstats

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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