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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-1000501 json

Awstats version 7.6 and earlier is vulnerable to a path traversal flaw in the handling of the "config" and "migrate" parameters resulting i…

published 2018-01-03 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-1610

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • awstats Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 7.6+dfsg-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000501

  • awstats Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 7.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1
  • awstats Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 7.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000501

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • awstats Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +15 more 7.6-r2
  • awstats Alpine 3.5, Alpine 3.4 7.5-r2
  • awstats Alpine 3.6 7.6-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-1000501

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000501 updated cvss 8.3

awstat: Two path traversal issues in awstat.pl

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.