Description
AWStats 6.5, and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by using the configdir parameter to awstats.pl to upload a configuration file whose name contains shell metacharacters, then access that file using the LogFile directive.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Access Vector
- network
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- single
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- partial
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- AWSTATS
- Published
- 5/30/2006
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
awstats : awstatsawstats : awstatsawstats : awstats
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