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Alpine: awstats: security update to 7.8-r0

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 403611

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities referenced in the following CVEs:

 - In AWStats through 7.7, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts an absolute pathname, 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. (CVE-2020-29600)

 - 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-2020-29600

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 403611

Version: Revision 1.25

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-29600

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/7/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-29600, CVE-2020-35176