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awstats — security advisory
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.
- Products
- awstats
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 7.8-r0
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-29600
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 12:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2020-29600
awstats
Fixed versions: 7.8-r0
awstats
Fixed versions: 7.8-r0
Complete source record
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 450617,
"published_at": "2020-12-07T20:15:12.837+00:00"
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