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AWStats "configdir" Parameter Arbitrary Command Execution
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA13893
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Release Date:
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2005-01-18
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Last Update:
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2005-02-15
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Popularity:
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23,646 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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Unknown
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | AWStats 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2005-0116
CVE-2005-0362
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in AWStats, where one has an unknown impact and the other can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
1) Input passed to the "configdir" parameter is not sanitised before being used as an argument to the "open()" Perl routine. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the web server by passing these as input together with certain shell meta-characters.
The "pluginmode", "loadplugin", and "noloadplugin" parameters are reportedly also affected.
Successful exploitation requires that the application is running as a CGI script.
2) The vendor has reported an unknown security hole. No more information is available.
Solution:
Update to version 6.3.
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/#DOWNLOAD
Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Discovered by anonymous person and reported via iDEFENSE.
2) Reported by vendor.
Changelog:
2005-01-19: Added CVE reference.
2005-02-11: Added link to US-CERT vulnerability note.
2005-02-15: Added further information and CVE reference. Updated "Description" section and added Gentoo advisory.
Original Advisory:
AWStats:
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt
iDEFENSE:
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=185&type=vulnerabilities
Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200501-36.xml
Other References:
US-CERT VU#272296:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/272296
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