CVE-2005-0116: Awstats

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 74.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AWStats 6.1, and other versions before 6.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the configdir parameter to aswtats.pl.

Affected products

• Awstats Awstats: up to and including 6.3

Published 2005-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.