Security advisory

{
  "id": "8dc6a95d962761cb77cc5e52006d31ca453a6c54765dac574c98f0193dea5b69",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-29600",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-29600",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-29600",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2020-29600",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2020-29600"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/eldy/awstats",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "24543ca5891e3eb1a76a92528fde0a4bec4a25a8"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:awstats:awstats:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "7.7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "AWSTATS_7_7",
            "AWSTATS_7_6",
            "7.6",
            "AWSTATS_7_5",
            "7.5",
            "AWSTATS_7_4",
            "AWSTATS_7_3",
            "AWSTATS_7_2",
            "AWSTATS_7_1",
            "AWSTATS_7_1_BETA3",
            "AWSTATS_7_1_BETA2",
            "AWSTATS_7_0_BETA3",
            "AWSTATS_7_0",
            "AWSTATS_7_0_BETA2",
            "AWSTATS_6_95_RC",
            "AWSTATS_6_95_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_6_9",
            "AWSTATS_6_8",
            "AWSTATS_6_8_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_6_1_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_6_1_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_9_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_9_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_8_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_8_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_7_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_6_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_6_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_5_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_5_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_4_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_3_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_3_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_2_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_1_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_5_0_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_5_0_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_4_1_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_4_1_BETA",
            "AWSTATS_4_0_RELEASE",
            "AWSTATS_4_0_BETA"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-29600.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:15.665016663Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "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"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "32"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "32"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2020-29600",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 384246,
  "published_at": "2020-12-07T20:15:12.837+00:00"
}