{
    "id": "CVE-2020-29600",
    "published": "2020-12-07 20:15:12",
    "last_modified": "2026-06-17 03:11:30",
    "cvss_score": "9.8",
    "cvss_severity": "CRITICAL",
    "cvss_version": "3.1",
    "cvss_vector": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "cwe": "CWE-22",
    "description": "In AWStats through 7.7, cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config= accepts an absolute pathname, 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.",
    "epss_score": "0.03836",
    "epss_percentile": "0.89839",
    "kev": 0,
    "kev_due": null,
    "has_exploit": 0,
    "updated_at": "2026-10-08 18:17:25",
    "priority": {
        "rank": 3,
        "label": "In your normal cycle",
        "why": "Critical by CVSS (9.8), but no sign of active exploitation."
    },
    "products": [
        {
            "vendor": "awstats",
            "product": "awstats"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "debian",
            "product": "debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "vendor": "fedoraproject",
            "product": "fedora"
        }
    ],
    "kev_detail": null,
    "exploits": [],
    "refs_list": [
        "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469",
        "https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/",
        "https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891469",
        "https://github.com/eldy/awstats/issues/90",
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/12/msg00035.html",
        "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/47QZWKSRZYZFESYTLSW7A6KVKOOPL7IV/"
    ]
}