UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29600

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2020-29600

    Published: 7 Dec 2020Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2020-29600
    Aliases:
    USN-4953-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-29600, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4953-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-29600

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: awstats

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.4+esm1

    Affected versions

    7.4+dfsg-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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