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CVE-2020-29600

In AWStats through 7.7, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts an absolute ...

Published Modified CWE 22
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10awstats7.8-r0
alpine 3.11awstats7.8-r0
debian 10awstats7.6+dfsg-2+deb10u1
debian 11awstats7.8-1
debian 12awstats7.8-1
debian 13awstats7.8-1
debian 14awstats7.8-1
debian 9awstats7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u2
echoawstats7.8-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMawstats7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
ubuntu 18.04awstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMawstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
Show all 15 entries from 15 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
alpine 3.10awstats7.8-r0
alpine 3.11awstats7.8-r0
debian 10awstats7.6+dfsg-2+deb10u1
debian 11awstats7.8-1
debian 12awstats7.8-1
debian 13awstats7.8-1
debian 14awstats7.8-1
debian 9awstats7.6+dfsg-1+deb9u2
echoawstats7.8-1
ubuntu 16.04-ESMawstats7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1
ubuntu 18.04awstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 18.04-ESMawstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.18.04.1
ubuntu 20.04awstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1
ubuntu 20.04-ESMawstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.04.1
ubuntu 20.10awstats7.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.20.10.1

References

Vulnerability data compiled from the Trivy vulnerability database (trivy-db, Aqua Security, Apache License 2.0), which aggregates third-party advisories. CVE records are published by The MITRE Corporation under the CVE Terms of Use; CVE is a trademark of MITRE. This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. Severity, titles and advisory data from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC BY 4.0), Red Hat security data (CC BY 4.0) and the other sources linked on each entry. Entries may be summarised or re-formatted; the linked original is the authoritative record.