National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0116
Original release date:01/18/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
AWStats 6.1, and other versions before 6.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the configdir parameter to aswtats.pl.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#272296
Name: VU#272296
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20050117 AWStats Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 13893
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://awstats.sourceforge.net/docs/awstats_changelog.txt
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BID
Name: 12298
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 13002
External Source: MISC
Name: http://packetstormsecurity.org/0501-exploits/AWStatsVulnAnalysis.pdf
