AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from Net::XWhois without proper checks.

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-b645c7feda advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-46391

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

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

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

  - AWStats 7.x through 7.8 allows XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from Net::XWhois
    without proper checks. (CVE-2022-46391)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the USN-5899-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that AWStats did not properly sanitize the content of whois responses in the hostinfo     plugin. An attacker could possibly use this issue to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

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.

The remote Fedora 36 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-fda5480804 advisory.

    Security fix for CVE-2022-46391

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 Debian 10 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the dla-3225 advisory.

    - -----------------------------------------------------------------------     Debian LTS Advisory DLA-3225-1              debian-lts@lists.debian.org     https://www.debian.org/lts/security/                      Utkarsh Gupta     December 05, 2022                           https://wiki.debian.org/LTS
    - -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package        : awstats     Version        : 7.6+dfsg-2+deb10u2     CVE ID         : CVE-2022-46391     Debian Bug     : 1025410

    AWStats, a powerful and featureful web server log analyzer, allowed     XSS in the hostinfo plugin due to printing a response from     Net::XWhois without proper checks.

    For Debian 10 buster, this problem has been fixed in version     7.6+dfsg-2+deb10u2.

    We recommend that you upgrade your awstats packages.

    For the detailed security status of awstats please refer to     its security tracker page at:
    https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/awstats

    Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply     these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be     found at: https://wiki.debian.org/LTS

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

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
194614	Fedora 37 : awstats (2023-b645c7feda)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
403614	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.9-r0	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
403614	Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.9-r0	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
403613	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.8-r3	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
403613	Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.8-r3	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	medium
171986	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS : AWStats vulnerability (USN-5899-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
170114	Fedora 36 : awstats (2023-fda5480804)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
168404	Debian dla-3225 : awstats - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium

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