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Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.8-r1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 403612

Description

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

 - 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.
 (CVE-2020-35176)

See Also

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2020-35176

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 403612

Version: Revision 1.28

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-35176

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35176