Bug 759544 – www-misc/awstats: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2020-35176)

• Status: IN_PROGRESS
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Sam James 2020-12-12 03:27:36 UTC]

"In AWStats through 7.8, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts a partial absolute pathname (omitting the initial /etc), 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 and CVE-2020-29600."

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ping

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

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Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

[Comment 7 NATTkA bot 2021-07-29 18:13:57 UTC]

Package list is empty or all packages have requested keywords.

[Comment 8 John Helmert III 2021-10-17 20:14:19 UTC]

Patch: https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/commit/96756d7f40e002cc1e6ba72c633fb66b92e54f49

[Comment 9 John Helmert III 2022-08-16 22:38:15 UTC]

Hm, this doesn't quite seem like arbitrary code execution on its own, since this may execute code via path traversal.