CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-0437

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.3 and 6.4 allows remote attackers to include arbitrary Perl modules via .. (dot dot) sequences in the loadplugin parameter.

Risk Assessment

An attacker can remotely execute arbitrary Perl code, leading to full compromise of the web server and breach of data confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

Recommendation

Immediately upgrade AWStats to version 6.5 or later, which fixes this vulnerability.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Directory traversal vulnerability in awstats.pl in AWStats 6.3 and 6.4 allows remote attackers to include arbitrary Perl modules via .. (dot dot) sequences in the loadplugin parameter.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS