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>> AWStats "ShowInfoURL" Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
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Title : AWStats "ShowInfoURL" Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1352
CVE ID : CVE-2005-1527
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-09
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A vulnerability was identified in AWStats, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw is due to an input validation error in the "awstats.pl" script that does not properly filter a specially crafted "url" parameter (in "ShowInfoURL_$pluginname") before calling the "eval()" function, which can be exploited by remote attackers to inject and execute arbitrary Perl commands via the referrer statistics page.
Affected Products
AWStats version 6.4 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to AWStats version 6.5 (Development) :
http://awstats.sourceforge.net/#DOWNLOAD
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1352
http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=290&type=vulnerabilities
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Peter Vreugdenhil
ChangeLog
2005-08-09 : Initial release
2005-08-11 : Updated vulnerable versions and solution
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