CVE-2020-35176

Publication date 12 December 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

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

incomplete fix for CVE-2017-1000501 and CVE-2020-29600

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	Low
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

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

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4953-1
AWStats vulnerabilities
13 May 2021

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-35176