A vulnerability has been identified in AWStats, which could be exploited by attackers to bypass security restrictions and potentially execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to input validation errors in the "awstats.pl" script that does not validate the "configdir" and "config" parameters before being used to load a configuration file, which could be exploited by attackers or malicious users able to upload an arbitrary file to inject and execute arbitrary shell commands via the "LogFile" configuration directive.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Hendrik Weimer
ChangeLog
2006-05-26 : Initial release
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