Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and
    "migrate" parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution. (CVE-2017-1000501)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4953-1 advisory.

    Sean Boran discovered that AWStats incorrectly filtered certain parameters. A remote attacker could     possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-29600)

    It was discovered that AWStats incorrectly filtered certain parameters. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to access sensitive information. (CVE-2020-35176)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202007-37 (AWStats: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in AWStats. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

The cPanel Security Team discovered that awstats, a log file analyzer, was vulnerable to path traversal attacks. A remote unauthenticated attacker could leverage that to perform arbitrary code execution.

Security fix for CVE-2017-1000501

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the 'config' and 'migrate' parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

For Debian 7 'Wheezy', these problems have been fixed in version 7.0~dfsg-7+deb7u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-3518-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that AWStats incorrectly filtered certain parameters. A remote attacker could possibly     use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Mitre reports :

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the 'config' and 'migrate' parameters resulting in unauthenticated remote code execution.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
403610	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.6-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
403610	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.6-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
403609	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.6-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
403609	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.6-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
403608	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.5-r2	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
403608	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.5-r2	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400738	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.6-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
400738	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.6-r1 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	critical
149478	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS : AWStats vulnerabilities (USN-4953-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
138960	GLSA-202007-37 : AWStats: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
106212	Debian DSA-4092-1 : awstats - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
106078	Fedora 26 : awstats (2018-17ba1a2393)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
106032	Fedora 27 : awstats (2018-7edfa0cfbf)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
105703	Debian DLA-1238-1 : awstats security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
105686	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS / 16.04 LTS : AWStats vulnerability (USN-3518-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
105665	FreeBSD : awstats -- remote code execution (4055aee5-f4c6-11e7-95f2-005056925db4)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

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