CVE-2020-35176

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-35176

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202103-15

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed7.8-2
debian debianbullseyefixed7.8-2
debian debianforkyfixed7.8-2
debian debiansidfixed7.8-2
debian debiantrixiefixed7.8-2
arch archfixed7.8-3

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.