CVE-2020-29600

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    CVE-2020-29600

    Published: 7 Dec 2020Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html, https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469, https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    AWSTATS_7_7

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
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    Physical
    Privileges Required
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    User Interaction
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    Scope
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    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
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    Availability
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