PT-2008-5251 · Awstats · Awstats Totals

Elliot Kendall · Published 2008-09-04 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-3921

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AWStats Totals versions 1.0 through 1.14

Description The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the month and year parameters. This can lead to cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

Recommendations For AWStats Totals versions 1.0 through 1.14, as a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable parameters month and year to minimize the risk of exploitation. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-3921

Affected Products

Awstats Totals

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-3921 · Security Note
• http://telartis.nl/xcms/awstats · Patch
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31630 · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/495770/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2442 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44706 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4218 · Note
• http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~ekenda2/EMORY-2008-01.txt · Note