CVE detail
CVE-2020-35176 — CVE-2020-35176
Published 2020-12-12 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor awstats · Product awstats · Source nvd
MEDIUM
severity
CVSS-derived band
0.0215
EPSS probability
exploitation probability, 30d
80.0%
EPSS percentile
percentile vs all CVEs
NOT LISTED
CISA KEV
known exploited catalog
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.
Remediation
No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.
References