CVE-2005-0363: Awstats

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

awstats.pl in AWStats 4.0 and 6.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the config parameter.

Affected products

• Awstats Awstats: version 4.0 only; version 6.2 only

Published 2005-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.