PT-2026-5405 · Awstats+2 · Awstats+1

Published 2026-01-30 · Updated 2026-04-20 · CVE-2025-63261

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AWStats version 8.0

Description AWStats version 8.0 contains a command injection issue due to an unsafe use of the open() function in Perl when processing HTTP GET parameters. Specifically, the presence of a pipe symbol ('|') within a parameter can lead to remote code execution (RCE).

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

OS Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-78

Related Identifiers

CVE-2025-63261

Affected Products

Awstats

Debian

References · 12

• 🔥 https://pentest-tools.com/PTT-2025-021-Code-Execution-in-AWStats.pdf · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-63261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2025-63261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-63261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-63261 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-63261 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-63261 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/eldy/AWStats/blob/develop/wwwroot/cgi-bin/awstats.pl · Note
• https://i.redd.it/cylw3o52jhgg1.png · Reddit Post
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/03/msg00013.html · Note
• https://twitter.com/threatcluster/status/2046114335009722380 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/2035627031149351402 · Twitter Post