Alpine: multiple awstats packages: security update to 7.8-r0 (deprecated)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 400228

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://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=4a3e86fe622ffde8c6ea5afe2a2032211e5efb65

https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/commit/?id=e835b9478d7af7dfd9c2735d659688592487cacc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 400228

Version: Revision 1.23

Type: Local

Published: 8/16/2023

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

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/12/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-35176