CVE-2017-1000501

Publication date 3 January 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
awstats	17.10 artful	Fixed 7.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.17.10.1
	17.04 zesty	Fixed 7.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.17.04.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 7.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
awstats	Upstream: cf21984 Upstream: 06c0ab2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3518-1
AWStats vulnerability
8 January 2018

USN-4953-1
AWStats vulnerabilities
13 May 2021

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000501