Awstats · Awstats · CVE-2020-29600
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
AWStats versions prior to 7.8
**Description**
The issue allows an absolute pathname to be accepted by the cgi-bin/awstats.pl endpoint, even though it was intended to only read a file in the /etc/awstats/awstats.conf format. This is due to an incomplete fix for a previous issue.
**Recommendations**
For AWStats versions prior to 7.8, consider restricting access to the cgi-bin/awstats.pl endpoint until a patch is available. As a temporary workaround, avoid using absolute pathnames in the `config` parameter of the cgi-bin/awstats.pl endpoint.